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+" Vim syntax file
+" Language:     AVR Assembler (AVRA)
+" AVRA Home:    http://avra.sourceforge.net/index.html
+" AVRA Version: 1.3.0
+" Maintainer:	  Marius Ghita <mhitza@gmail.com>
+
+let s:cpo_save = &cpo
+set cpo&vim
+
+setlocal iskeyword=a-z,A-Z,48-57,.,_
+" 'isident' is a global option, better not set it
+" setlocal isident=a-z,A-Z,48-57,.,_
+syn case ignore
+
+syn keyword avraRegister r0 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 r8 r9 r10 r11 r12 r13 r14
+syn keyword avraRegister r15 r16 r17 r18 r19 r20 r21 r22 r23 r24 r25 r26 r27
+syn keyword avraRegister r28 r29 r30 r31
+
+syn keyword avraInstr add adc adiw sub subi sbc sbci sbiw and andi or ori eor
+syn keyword avraInstr com neg sbr cbr inc dec tst clr ser mul muls mulsu fmul
+syn keyword avraInstr fmuls fmulsu des rjmp ijmp eijmp jmp rcall icall eicall
+syn keyword avraInstr call ret reti cpse cp cpc cpi sbrc sbrs sbic sbis brbs
+syn keyword avraInstr brbc breq brne brcs brcc brsh brlo brmi brpl brge brlt
+syn keyword avraInstr brhs brhc brts brtc brvs brvc brie brid mov movw ldi lds
+syn keyword avraInstr ld ldd sts st std lpm elpm spm in out push pop xch las
+syn keyword avraInstr lac lat lsl lsr rol ror asr swap bset bclr sbi cbi bst bld
+syn keyword avraInstr sec clc sen cln sez clz sei cli ses cls sev clv set clt
+syn keyword avraInstr seh clh break nop sleep wdr
+
+syn keyword avraDirective .byte .cseg .db .def .device .dseg .dw .endmacro .equ
+syn keyword avraDirective .eseg .exit .include .list .listmac .macro .nolist
+syn keyword avraDirective .org .set .define .undef .ifdef .ifndef .if .else
+syn keyword avraDirective .elif .elseif .warning
+
+syn keyword avraOperator low high byte2 byte3 byte4 lwrd hwrd page exp2 log2
+
+syn match avraNumericOperator "[-*/+]"
+syn match avraUnaryOperator   "!"
+syn match avraBinaryOperator  "<<\|>>\|<\|<=\|>\|>=\|==\|!="
+syn match avraBitwiseOperator "[~&^|]\|&&\|||"
+
+syn match avraBinaryNumber    "\<0[bB][0-1]*\>"
+syn match avraHexNumber       "\<0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]\+\>"
+syn match avraDecNumber       "\<\(0\|[1-9]\d*\)\>"
+
+syn region avraComment start=";" end="$"
+syn region avraString  start="\"" end="\"\|$"
+
+syn match avraLabel "^\s*[^; \t]\+:"
+
+hi def link avraBinaryNumber    avraNumber
+hi def link avraHexNumber       avraNumber
+hi def link avraDecNumber       avraNumber
+
+hi def link avraNumericOperator avraOperator
+hi def link avraUnaryOperator   avraOperator
+hi def link avraBinaryOperator  avraOperator
+hi def link avraBitwiseOperator avraOperator
+
+
+hi def link avraOperator  operator
+hi def link avraComment   comment
+hi def link avraDirective preproc
+hi def link avraRegister  type
+hi def link avraNumber    constant
+hi def link avraString    String
+hi def link avraInstr     keyword
+hi def link avraLabel     label
+
+let b:current_syntax = "avra"
+
+let &cpo = s:cpo_save
+unlet s:cpo_save