Armasm: Literal pools?

Hi,

im using the armasm assembler, and i learnt what literal pools are
while reading the ads assembler guide. i am using atmel`s pre-canned
libraries for low level inits. i have seen that the cstartup file has
code thats written in a particular way.
u can see that at the end of the section, the symbols like
"at91_default_fiq_handler" etc are stored nearby explicitly using DCD.
we could also have used something like
>ldr r0, =at91_default_fiq_handler
why is this being done?
does it have something to do with a literal pool?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

;- Advanced Interrupt Controller configuration

;---------------------------------------------------------------------------

;- Set up the default vectors

;---------------------------------------------------------------------------

;- Load the AIC Base Address and the default handler addresses



>	add 	r0, pc,#-(8+.-AicData) 		; @ where to read values (relative)

ldmia 	r0, {r1-r4}



;- Setup the Spurious Vector


..
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..
..
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str 	r4, [r1, #AIC_SPU] 			; r4 =spurious handler



;---------------------------------------------------------------------------

;- Default Interrupt Handler

;---------------------------------------------------------------------------

AicData

DCD 	AT91C_BASE_AIC; AIC Base Address

IMPORT 	at91_default_fiq_handler

IMPORT 	at91_default_irq_handler

IMPORT 	at91_spurious_handler



PtDefaultHandler



DCD 	at91_default_fiq_handler

DCD 	at91_default_irq_handler

DCD 	at91_spurious_handler
EndInitAic

Thanx in anticipation

Mayank

or is the aim to speed up execution by using sequential memory accesses?