arm-elf-as.exe compiler question.

[Fu, Jack]

Hi All:
I have a question for the GNUpro arm-elf-as.exe cross compiler for ARM
running in NT.  

I used to have the following assembly instruction

srcmask: .data.w    0x00000000, 0xff000000, 0xffff0000, 0xffffff00
        	 .data.w    0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff

for defining data.

What is the correct syntax for arm-elf-as to compile this for ARM processor?
It is complaining about .data.w

Thanks for your help.

Jack