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9.20.2 KVX Machine Directives
.align ALIGNMENT

Pad with NOPs until the next boundary with the required ALIGNMENT.
.dword

Declare a double-word-sized (8 bytes) constant.
.endp [PROC]

This directive marks the end of the procedure PROC. The name of the procedure is always ignored (it is only here as a visual indicator).

.proc NAME
...
.endp NAME

is equivalent to the more traditional

.type NAME, @function
...
.size NAME,.-NAME
.file

This directive is only supported when producing ELF files. see .file for details.

.loc FILENO LINENO

This directive is only supported when producing ELF files. see .line for details.

.proc PROC

This directive marks the start of procedure, the name of the procedure PROC is mandatory and all .proc directive should be matched by exactly one .endp directive.
.word

Declare a word-sized (4 bytes) constant.