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 Message        Use of symbolic addresses with <text> instruction
                requires a .s file

 Description    Using a symbolic operand in this asm directive will
                require the compiler to produce an .s file and invoke
                the assembler to process this source.

 User Action    Do not use symbolic operands in asm directives.