".space" directive not recognised by solaris assembler

The Solaris assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) does not recognise the .space directive. Presumably the GNU assembler does.

/usr/ccs/bin/as: "test.s", line 484: error: unknown opcode ".space"
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "test.s", line 484: error: statement syntax

It happens building ghc head on sparc solaris with the NCG turned on. However the pretty-printing code:

compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.hs:

pprData (CmmUninitialised bytes) = ptext (sLit ".space ") <> int bytes

does not look like it's in a section that is specific to sparc or solaris. So presumably the same issue applies on Solaris on x86 systems when using the system gcc and assembler rather than GNU as.

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.11
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler (NCG)
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