Allocating space in bss using GAS

[drhowarddrfine]

I don't know why I'm struggling with this but I'm trying to create a 32 byte space, called 'environ', in the .bss section using GAS on FreeBSD, which should be the same in Linux.  I thought the way to do this would be:

environ: .long 32

or,

environ: .long .+32

But no matter what I try, I only get one long word.  I guess I'm rushing through the binutils docs too fast but I know some of you are tinkering with GAS so hope you can help.

[Vortex]

Hi Howard,

Can you try this one?

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environ: .space 32, 0

[drhowarddrfine]

That did it. Thanks.
Is .long only for a single long word while .space is for many bytes?

[Vortex]

That did it. Thanks.
Is .long only for a single long word while .space is for many bytes?

Hi Howard,

As I know, .long is only for a single long word.