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<h3 class="section">17.20 Defining the Output Assembler Language</h3>
<p>This section describes macros whose principal purpose is to describe how
to write instructions in assembler language—rather than what the
instructions do.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="File-Framework.html#File-Framework">File Framework</a>: Structural information for the assembler file.
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Data-Output.html#Data-Output">Data Output</a>: Output of constants (numbers, strings, addresses).
<li><a accesskey="3" href="Uninitialized-Data.html#Uninitialized-Data">Uninitialized Data</a>: Output of uninitialized variables.
<li><a accesskey="4" href="Label-Output.html#Label-Output">Label Output</a>: Output and generation of labels.
<li><a accesskey="5" href="Initialization.html#Initialization">Initialization</a>: General principles of initialization
and termination routines.
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Specific macros that control the handling of
initialization and termination routines.
<li><a accesskey="7" href="Instruction-Output.html#Instruction-Output">Instruction Output</a>: Output of actual instructions.
<li><a accesskey="8" href="Dispatch-Tables.html#Dispatch-Tables">Dispatch Tables</a>: Output of jump tables.
<li><a accesskey="9" href="Exception-Region-Output.html#Exception-Region-Output">Exception Region Output</a>: Output of exception region code.
<li><a href="Alignment-Output.html#Alignment-Output">Alignment Output</a>: Pseudo ops for alignment and skipping data.
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