.quad pseudo-op

Purpose

Stores a quad floating-point constant at the next fullword location. Alignment requirements for floating-point data are consistent between 32-bit and 64-bit modes.

Syntax

Examples

The following example demonstrates the use of the .quad pseudo-op:

.quad 3.4
.quad -77
.quad 134E12
.quad 5e300
.quad 0.45

The above declarations would reserve 16 bytes of storage each.