Directive (programming): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:54, 6 March 2008

Revision as of 22:23, 6 March 2008

Line 2:

==Assembly language==

In [[assembly language]], directives generally specify such information as the target platform, mark the separations between [[section]]s, and so on. For instance, the commonly seen directive "ALIGN", which inseinserts in the current section as many [[byte]]s as needed to preserve word-alignment, is generally referred to as a "directive", despite the fact that it does correspond to a particular construct in the generated code.

==The C preprocessor==