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.quad bignums.quad expects zero or more bignums, separated by commas. For
each bignum, it emits
an 8-byte integer. If the bignum won’t fit in 8 bytes, it prints a
warning message; and just takes the lowest order 8 bytes of the bignum.
The term “quad” comes from contexts in which a “word” is two bytes; hence quad-word for 8 bytes.
Note - this directive is not intended for encoding instructions, and it will
not trigger effects like DWARF line number generation. Instead some targets
support special directives for encoding arbitrary binary sequences as
instructions such as .insn or .inst.