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Old Jun 11th, 2006, 9:53 AM   #3
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Those are callled assembler directives or pesudo-operations, they are instructions to the assembler itself.

The .stack tells the assembler that the stack segment starts there. .data is where the data segment starts, .code is where the code segment starts.
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