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<h3 class="section">7.120 <code>.word </code><var>expressions</var></h3>
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<p><a name="index-_0040code_007bword_007d-directive-499"></a>This directive expects zero or more <var>expressions</var>, of any section,
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separated by commas.
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<p>The size of the number emitted, and its byte order,
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<p>Machines with a 32-bit address space, but that do less than 32-bit
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addressing, require the following special treatment. If the machine of
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interest to you does 32-bit addressing (or doesn't require it;
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see <a href="Machine-Dependencies.html#Machine-Dependencies">Machine Dependencies</a>), you can ignore this issue.
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<p>In order to assemble compiler output into something that works,
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<span class="command">as</span> occasionally does strange things to <span class="samp">.word</span> directives.
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Directives of the form <span class="samp">.word sym1-sym2</span> are often emitted by
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compilers as part of jump tables. Therefore, when <span class="command">as</span> assembles a
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directive of the form <span class="samp">.word sym1-sym2</span>, and the difference between
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<code>sym1</code> and <code>sym2</code> does not fit in 16 bits, <span class="command">as</span>
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creates a <dfn>secondary jump table</dfn>, immediately before the next label.
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This secondary jump table is preceded by a short-jump to the
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first byte after the secondary table. This short-jump prevents the flow
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of control from accidentally falling into the new table. Inside the
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table is a long-jump to <code>sym2</code>. The original <span class="samp">.word</span>
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contains <code>sym1</code> minus the address of the long-jump to
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<code>sym2</code>.
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<p>If there were several occurrences of <span class="samp">.word sym1-sym2</span> before the
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secondary jump table, all of them are adjusted. If there was a
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<span class="samp">.word sym3-sym4</span>, that also did not fit in sixteen bits, a
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long-jump to <code>sym4</code> is included in the secondary jump table,
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and the <code>.word</code> directives are adjusted to contain <code>sym3</code>
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minus the address of the long-jump to <code>sym4</code>; and so on, for as many
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entries in the original jump table as necessary.
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