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  64. <h4 class="subsubsection">9.53.5.5 literal_position</h4>
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  66. <p>When using &lsquo;<samp>--text-section-literals</samp>&rsquo; to place literals inline
  67. in the section being assembled, the <code>.literal_position</code> directive
  68. can be used to mark a potential location for a literal pool.
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  71. <pre class="smallexample"> .literal_position
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  73. <p>The <code>.literal_position</code> directive is ignored when the
  74. &lsquo;<samp>--text-section-literals</samp>&rsquo; option is not used or when
  75. <code>L32R</code> instructions use the absolute addressing mode.
  76. </p>
  77. <p>The assembler will automatically place text section literal pools
  78. before <code>ENTRY</code> instructions, so the <code>.literal_position</code>
  79. directive is only needed to specify some other location for a literal
  80. pool. You may need to add an explicit jump instruction to skip over an
  81. inline literal pool.
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  83. <p>For example, an interrupt vector does not begin with an <code>ENTRY</code>
  84. instruction so the assembler will be unable to automatically find a good
  85. place to put a literal pool. Moreover, the code for the interrupt
  86. vector must be at a specific starting address, so the literal pool
  87. cannot come before the start of the code. The literal pool for the
  88. vector must be explicitly positioned in the middle of the vector (before
  89. any uses of the literals, due to the negative offsets used by
  90. PC-relative <code>L32R</code> instructions). The <code>.literal_position</code>
  91. directive can be used to do this. In the following code, the literal
  92. for &lsquo;<samp>M</samp>&rsquo; will automatically be aligned correctly and is placed after
  93. the unconditional jump.
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  96. <pre class="smallexample"> .global M
  97. code_start:
  98. </pre><pre class="smallexample"> j continue
  99. .literal_position
  100. .align 4
  101. </pre><pre class="smallexample">continue:
  102. movi a4, M
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