Assembly Language
In assembly language, directives generally specify such information as the target platform, mark the separations between sections, and so on. For instance, the commonly seen directive "ALIGN", which inserts in the current section as many bytes 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.
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