From: dmcneill AT pne DOT co DOT uk (Dave McNeill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Reserving space using AS
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:10:13 GMT
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frazer AT rtp DOT ericsson DOT se (Scott Frazer) wrote:

>I would like to reserve a chunk of memory for a buffer in assembly
>similar to this:

>	.data
>_ExampleBuffer:
>	.align 4
>	.fill  100000, 1, 0

>This works fine, but the executable size goes up 100k!  I think
>maybe '.comm', '.lcomm', or '.space' might do the trick, but I
>would rather know the right way now rather than messing things
>up when I blank the buffer and spend time trying to find 
>unrelated bugs.

the c compiler uses '.comm _label,size' for uninitialized
static data.  i reckon that '.space' in a .bss section
would have the same effect.