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<h3 class="section">17.21 Defining the Output Assembler Language</h3>
<p>This section describes macros whose principal purpose is to describe how
to write instructions in assembler language&mdash;rather than what the
instructions do.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Data-Output.html#Data-Output" accesskey="2">Data Output</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Output of constants (numbers, strings, addresses).
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Uninitialized-Data.html#Uninitialized-Data" accesskey="3">Uninitialized Data</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Output of uninitialized variables.
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Specific macros that control the handling of
initialization and termination routines.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Instruction-Output.html#Instruction-Output" accesskey="7">Instruction Output</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Output of actual instructions.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Dispatch-Tables.html#Dispatch-Tables" accesskey="8">Dispatch Tables</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Output of jump tables.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Alignment-Output.html#Alignment-Output">Alignment Output</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Pseudo ops for alignment and skipping data.
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