From: xmerm05 AT vse DOT cz (Mertl Michal - UC,,student,UID=22797)
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Subject: Re: Great new 386/GAS guide
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:53:27 GMT
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Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org> wrote:
>Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:
>> 1) How does one reserve space in a (stand-alone) assembly program
>if you mean, reserving space for a variable, then you use the .comm
>directive like this:
>.comm _x,4 will create a variable (global variable, AFAIK) that could be
>a char, an int, a float or anything that will get into those 4 bytes.
>a long will take 8 bytes IIRC so you could say .comm _y,8 and so on.
Doesn't long use also 4 bytes (32 bit)? 

 Michal "MiMe" Mertl
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