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==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 inserts 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.inse

==The C preprocessor==