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<h4 class="subsection">9.24.7 Directive to mark data as an instruction</h4>

<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007b_002einsn_007d-1279"></a>The <code>.insn</code> directive tells <code>as</code> that the following
data is actually instructions.  This makes a difference in MIPS 16 mode:
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.

   <p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007b_002eglobal_007d-1280"></a>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:

   <p><code>.global </code><var>symbol</var><code>[ </code><var>section</var><code>][, </code><var>symbol</var><code>[ </code><var>section</var><code>]] ...</code>,

   <p>Here is a short example:

<pre class="example">             .global foo .text, bar, baz .data
     foo:
             nop
     bar:
             .word 0x0
     baz:
             .word 0x1
     
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