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18.20 Defining the Output Assembler Language ¶

This section describes macros whose principal purpose is to describe how to write instructions in assembler language—rather than what the instructions do.

• The Overall Framework of an Assembler File
• Output of Data
• Output of Uninitialized Variables
• Output and Generation of Labels
• How Initialization Functions Are Handled
• Macros Controlling Initialization Routines
• Output of Assembler Instructions
• Output of Dispatch Tables
• Assembler Commands for Exception Regions
• Assembler Commands for Alignment