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M68000-Specific Directives

The following directives are specific to the M68000 architecture.

.word, .int, .quad, and .octa

SYNOPSIS

.word [ expression ] [ ,expression ] ... .int [ expression ] [ ,expression ] ... .quad [ expression ] [ ,expression ] ... .octa [ expression ] [ ,expression ] ...

These directives reserve storage locations in the current section and initialize them with specified integral values. Each directive takes zero or more comma-separated absolute expressions and generates a sequence of bytes for each expression. The expressions are truncated to the size generated by the directive:

• .word generates two bytes per expression
• .int generates four bytes per expression
• .quad generates eight bytes per expression
• .octa generates sixteen bytes per expression