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`.type INT' (COFF version)
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   This directive, permitted only within `.def'/`.endef' pairs, records
the integer INT as the type attribute of a symbol table entry.

   `.type' is associated only with COFF format output; when `as' is
configured for `b.out' output, it accepts this directive but ignores it.

`.type NAME , TYPE DESCRIPTION' (ELF version)
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   This directive is used to set 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