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  1. WebAssembly
  2. WebAssembly instruction reference
  3. WebAssembly variable instructions
  4. Local

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  1. WebAssembly home page
  2. Tutorials
    1. WebAssembly concepts
    2. Compiling from C/C++ to WebAssembly
    3. Compiling from Rust to WebAssembly
    4. Using the WebAssembly JavaScript API
    5. Understanding WebAssembly text format
    6. Converting WebAssembly text format to wasm
    7. Loading and running WebAssembly code
    8. Exported WebAssembly functions
  3. JavaScript interface
    1. WebAssembly
    2. WebAssembly.Module
    3. WebAssembly.Global
    4. WebAssembly.Instance
    5. WebAssembly.Memory
    6. WebAssembly.Table
    7. WebAssembly.Tag
    8. WebAssembly.Exception
    9. WebAssembly.CompileError
    10. WebAssembly.LinkError
    11. WebAssembly.RuntimeError

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Local

The local instruction declares a new local variable.

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Syntax

wasm

;; declare new variable named $val of type i32
(local $val i32)

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