The general form of the <code>DATA</code> directive is

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DATA	symbol+offset(SB)/width, value
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which initializes the symbol memory at the given offset and width with the given value.
The <code>DATA</code> directives for a given symbol must be written with increasing offsets.
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The <code>GLOBL</code> directive declares a symbol to be global.