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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2015-04-30 10:13:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2015-04-30 10:13:53 +0100 |
| commit | 7ce98c164ed42df085c1b3e08c5261e02320149b (patch) | |
| tree | f5c3398002be6f92168df01a0e05974e27a77a2a /gas | |
| parent | 5fccc63539a111f4087522316819cc8a4b28c6b0 (diff) | |
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Adds documentation of GAS's .zero directive.
PR gas/18353
* doc/as.texinfo (Zero): Add documentation of the .zero pseudo-op.
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diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 9ba6648..062e13d 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-04-30 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR gas/18353 + * doc/as.texinfo (Zero): Add documentation of the .zero pseudo-op. + 2015-04-29 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> PR 18256 diff --git a/gas/doc/as.texinfo b/gas/doc/as.texinfo index d09e88c..aac488e 100644 --- a/gas/doc/as.texinfo +++ b/gas/doc/as.texinfo @@ -4380,6 +4380,9 @@ Some machine configurations provide additional directives. * Weak:: @code{.weak @var{names}} * Weakref:: @code{.weakref @var{alias}, @var{symbol}} * Word:: @code{.word @var{expressions}} +@ifclear no-space-dir +* Zero:: @code{.zero @var{size}} +@end ifclear * Deprecated:: Deprecated Directives @end menu @@ -6995,6 +6998,18 @@ assembly language programmers. @end ifset @c end DIFF-TBL-KLUGE +@ifclear no-space-dir +@node Zero +@section @code{.zero @var{size}} + +@cindex @code{zero} directive +@cindex filling memory with zero bytes +This directive emits @var{size} 0-valued bytes. @var{size} must be an absolute +expression. This directive is actually an alias for the @samp{.skip} directive +so in can take an optional second argument of the value to store in the bytes +instead of zero. Using @samp{.zero} in this way would be confusing however. +@end ifclear + @node Deprecated @section Deprecated Directives |