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.typeThis directive is used to set the type of a symbol.
For COFF targets, this directive is permitted only within
.def/.endef pairs. It is used like this:
.type int
This records the integer int as the type attribute of a symbol table entry.
For ELF targets, the .type directive is used like this:
.type name , type description
This sets the type of symbol name to be either a function symbol or an object symbol. There are five different syntaxes supported for the type description field, in order to provide compatibility with various other assemblers. The syntaxes supported are:
.type <name>,#function
.type <name>,#object
.type <name>,@function
.type <name>,@object
.type <name>,%function
.type <name>,%object
.type <name>,"function"
.type <name>,"object"
.type <name> STT_FUNCTION
.type <name> STT_OBJECT