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Chapter 7 Directives Reference
This chapter describes the dir ectives that are provided by the ARM ass embler,
armasm
.
It contains the following sections:
•Alphabetical list of directives on page7-2
•Symbol definition directives on page7-3
•Data definition directives on page7-13
Allocate memory, define data structures, set initial contents of memory.
•Assembly control directives on page7-26
Conditional assembly, looping, inclusions, and macros.
•Frame description directives on page 7-33
•Reporting directives on page7-44
•Miscellaneous directives on page7-49.
Note
None of these directives are available in the inline assemblers in the ARM C and C++
compilers.