<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Fill - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.7"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops" title="Pseudo Ops"> <link rel="prev" href="File.html#File" title="File"> <link rel="next" href="Float.html#Float" title="Float"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. man end--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="Fill"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Float.html#Float">Float</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="File.html#File">File</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops">Pseudo Ops</a> <hr><br> </div> <h3 class="section">7.53 <code>.fill </code><var>repeat</var><code> , </code><var>size</var><code> , </code><var>value</var></h3> <p><a name="index-_0040code_007bfill_007d-directive-329"></a><a name="index-writing-patterns-in-memory-330"></a><a name="index-patterns_002c-writing-in-memory-331"></a><var>repeat</var>, <var>size</var> and <var>value</var> are absolute expressions. This emits <var>repeat</var> copies of <var>size</var> bytes. <var>Repeat</var> may be zero or more. <var>Size</var> may be zero or more, but if it is more than 8, then it is deemed to have the value 8, compatible with other people's assemblers. The contents of each <var>repeat</var> bytes is taken from an 8-byte number. The highest order 4 bytes are zero. The lowest order 4 bytes are <var>value</var> rendered in the byte-order of an integer on the computer <span class="command">as</span> is assembling for. Each <var>size</var> bytes in a repetition is taken from the lowest order <var>size</var> bytes of this number. Again, this bizarre behavior is compatible with other people's assemblers. <p><var>size</var> and <var>value</var> are optional. If the second comma and <var>value</var> are absent, <var>value</var> is assumed zero. If the first comma and following tokens are absent, <var>size</var> is assumed to be 1. </body></html>