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<h3 class="section">7.62 <code>.octa </code><var>bignums</var></h3>
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<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bocta_007d-directive-416"></a><a name="index-integer_002c-16_002dbyte-417"></a><a name="index-sixteen-byte-integer-418"></a>This directive expects zero or more bignums, separated by commas. For each
bignum, it emits a 16-byte integer.
<p>The term “octa” comes from contexts in which a “word” is two bytes;
hence <em>octa</em>-word for 16 bytes.
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