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<h4 class="subsection">9.27.8 Directive to mark data as an instruction</h4>
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007b_002einsn_007d-1507"></a>The <code>.insn</code> directive tells <code>as</code> that the following
data is actually instructions. This makes a difference in MIPS 16 and
microMIPS modes: when loading the address of a label which precedes
instructions, <code>as</code> automatically adds 1 to the value, so
that jumping to the loaded address will do the right thing.
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007b_002eglobal_007d-1508"></a>The <code>.global</code> and <code>.globl</code> directives supported by
<code>as</code> will by default mark the symbol as pointing to a
region of data not code. This means that, for example, any
instructions following such a symbol will not be disassembled by
<code>objdump</code> as it will regard them as data. To change this
behavior an optional section name can be placed after the symbol name
in the <code>.global</code> directive. If this section exists and is known
to be a code section, then the symbol will be marked as pointing at
code not data. Ie the syntax for the directive is:
<p><code>.global </code><var>symbol</var><code>[ </code><var>section</var><code>][, </code><var>symbol</var><code>[ </code><var>section</var><code>]] ...</code>,
<p>Here is a short example:
<pre class="example"> .global foo .text, bar, baz .data
foo:
nop
bar:
.word 0x0
baz:
.word 0x1
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