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<h3 class="section">7.82 <code>.size</code></h3>
<p>This directive is used to set the size associated with a symbol.
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<h4 class="subheading">COFF Version</h4>
<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bsize_007d-directive-_0028COFF-version_0029-463"></a>For COFF targets, the <code>.size</code> directive is only permitted inside
<code>.def</code>/<code>.endef</code> pairs. It is used like this:
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<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bsize_007d-directive-_0028ELF-version_0029-464"></a>For ELF targets, the <code>.size</code> directive is used like this:
<pre class="smallexample"> .size <var>name</var> , <var>expression</var>
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<p>This directive sets the size associated with a symbol <var>name</var>.
The size in bytes is computed from <var>expression</var> which can make use of label
arithmetic. This directive is typically used to set the size of function
symbols.
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