Assembler Directives

This section describes some special assembler directives that the PowerPC built-in assembler accepts. These directives are:

• entry
  Defines an entry point into the current function.
• fralloc
  Creates a stack frame for a function and reserves registers for local register variables.
• frfree
  Frees a function's stack frame and restores local register variables.
• machine
  Specifies the processor that the assembly language targets.
• nofralloc
  Specifies that the function will build a stack frame explicitly.
• opword
  Inserts raw bytes into the object code.
• equ
  Sets the value of symbol to expression.