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 =====  Format of an Assembly Language program  =====
-The traditional extension for assembly-language source files that will be used as input to an assembler is ''.s'' or ".asm", or ''.S'' for files that need to go through the C preprocessor (''cpp'') and compiler (''cc'').
+The traditional extension for assembly-language source files that will be used as input to an assembler is ''.s'' (or __.asm__ on some platforms), or ''.S'' for files that need to go through the C preprocessor (''cpp'') and possibly the compiler (''cc'').
 An assembly-language program consists of: