Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.COLUMBIA.EDU!dupuy From: dupuy@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (Alexander Dupuy) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Request for enhancement to GAS Message-ID: <8909261756.AA07137@cs.columbia.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 17:56:58 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 9 After reading my previous message on this, I realize it is somewhat less than coherent. The .bss directive is basically the same as the .data or .text directives, except that it (1) only calculates sizes and symbol offsets, and doesn't generate any initializations, and (2) puts those symbols in the bss csect, rather than the text or data csects. You could probably figure that out from my message and the suggestive name of the .bss directive, but I thought I'd make it clear. @alex