Hello all. I'm beginning to learn assembly, and I'm reading a PDF (Programming from the Ground Up) that uses GNU Assembler. Now, I'd use as, but the syntax is horrible.

Anyway, up until now I've been able to convert from as to fasm syntax. But now, I need to declare a buffer in section .bss of a certain length. How would I do this? I searched through the fasm manual, and some other docs, but couldn't find what I was looking for. Any help would be appreciated.

By the way, here is the code that was in the book:



Also, would you happen to know why, if I have at the top of my source, "format ELF executable", that fasm gives me "extra characters at end" when I have "section '.bss' writeable) in my code, but if I leave out the "executable" part, it doesn't? Just curious.

Thanks! [/code]

This compiles, and isnt there any examples on linux package of fasm?

Thank you, I figured it out. Yes, I guess I passed over it...