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definition without needing to reason about the prefix data. Obviously this
makes the format of the prefix data highly target dependent.
+Prefix data is laid out as if it were an initializer for a global variable
+of the prefix data's type. No padding is automatically placed between the
+prefix data and the function body. If padding is required, it must be part
+of the prefix data.
+
A trivial example of valid prefix data for the x86 architecture is ``i8 144``,
which encodes the ``nop`` instruction: