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description: "Learn more about: EVEN and ALIGN Directives"
title: "EVEN and ALIGN Directives"
ms.date: "08/30/2018"
description: "Learn more about: EVEN and ALIGN Directives"
ms.date: 08/30/2018
helpviewer_keywords: ["EVEN directive", "directives, MASM", "MASM (Microsoft Macro Assembler), directives", "NOP (no operation instruction)", "ALIGN directive"]
ms.assetid: 7357ab2d-4a5c-43ca-accb-a5f21cdfcde5
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# EVEN and ALIGN Directives
# `EVEN` and `ALIGN` Directives

**Microsoft Specific**

Although the inline assembler doesn't support most MASM directives, it does support `EVEN` and **ALIGN**. These directives put **NOP** (no operation) instructions in the assembly code as needed to align labels to specific boundaries. This makes instruction-fetch operations more efficient for some processors.
Although the inline assembler doesn't support most MASM directives, it does support [`EVEN`](../masm/even.md) and [`ALIGN`](../masm/align-masm.md). These directives put `NOP` (no operation) instructions in the assembly code as needed to align labels to specific boundaries. This makes instruction-fetch operations more efficient for some processors.

**END Microsoft Specific**

## See also

[Using Assembly Language in __asm Blocks](../../assembler/inline/using-assembly-language-in-asm-blocks.md)<br/>
[Using Assembly Language in `__asm` Blocks](using-assembly-language-in-asm-blocks.md)