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<h4 class="subsection">9.27.8 Directive to mark data as an instruction</h4>

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<p>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.
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<p>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
behaviour 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 poiting at
code not data.  Ie the syntax for the directive is:
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<p><code>.global <var>symbol</var>[ <var>section</var>][, <var>symbol</var>[ <var>section</var>]] ...</code>,
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<p>Here is a short example:
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foo:
        nop
bar:
        .word 0x0
baz:
        .word 0x1

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