A place for everything, and everything in its place. In assembler, that means that the things we define require proper alignment. This short paper discusses alignment for code and data, and how to get it.
Review an Idea: Alignment
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For clarity, data definitions and alignment statements are ‘compiler directives’, not (machine) ‘instructions’.
Good catch! I updated the article to reflect your suggestion.