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 7.98 '.type'
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 This directive is used to set the type of a symbol.
 
 COFF Version
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 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.
 
 ELF Version
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 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.
 
    Because some of the characters used in these syntaxes (such as '@'
 and '#') are comment characters for some architectures, some of the
 syntaxes below do not work on all architectures.  The first variant will
 be accepted by the GNU assembler on all architectures so that variant
 should be used for maximum portability, if you do not need to assemble
 your code with other assemblers.
 
    The syntaxes supported are:
 
        .type <name> STT_<TYPE_IN_UPPER_CASE>
        .type <name>,#<type>
        .type <name>,@<type>
        .type <name>,%<type>
        .type <name>,"<type>"
 
    The types supported are:
 
 'STT_FUNC'
 'function'
      Mark the symbol as being a function name.
 
 'STT_GNU_IFUNC'
 'gnu_indirect_function'
      Mark the symbol as an indirect function when evaluated during reloc
      processing.  (This is only supported on assemblers targeting GNU
      systems).
 
 'STT_OBJECT'
 'object'
      Mark the symbol as being a data object.
 
 'STT_TLS'
 'tls_object'
      Mark the symbol as being a thread-local data object.
 
 'STT_COMMON'
 'common'
      Mark the symbol as being a common data object.
 
 'STT_NOTYPE'
 'notype'
      Does not mark the symbol in any way.  It is supported just for
      completeness.
 
 'gnu_unique_object'
      Marks the symbol as being a globally unique data object.  The
      dynamic linker will make sure that in the entire process there is
      just one symbol with this name and type in use.  (This is only
      supported on assemblers targeting GNU systems).
 
    Note: Some targets support extra types in addition to those listed
 above.