[Bug gas/18353] Pseudo-op .zero not documented

[calculuswhiz at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18353

--- Comment #3 from calculuswhiz at gmail dot com ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #2)
> Hi,
> 
> > Upon further investigation, I found that, indeed, the manual site
> > "https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/index.html"; does not make any
> > mention of it. I guess this sets the specified number of bytes to zero?
> 
> Exactly right.  What do you think of this description:
> 
>   7.104 '.zero SIZE'
>   ==================
> 
>   This directive emits SIZE 0-valued bytes.  SIZE must be an absolute
>   expression.  This directive is actually an alias for the '.skip'
>   directive so in can take an optional second argument of the value to
>   store in the bytes instead of zero.  Using '.zero' in this way would be
>   confusing however.
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

I think it looks good.

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