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Re: New keywords (string32) for GNU as ?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Helge Deller'" <deller at gmx dot de>, <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:22:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: New keywords (string32) for GNU as ?
- References: <007801c70bec$05416e30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:
> On 19 November 2006 14:23, Helge Deller wrote:
>
>> gcc's assembler output for this C-Code:
>>
>> static wchar_t x[] = L"HELLO";
>>
>> is (on little endian targets) something like this:
>> x:
>> .string "H"
>> .string ""
>> .string ""
>> .string "E
>> .string ""
>> .string ""
>> .string "L"
>> .....
>
> ??? That shows 24-bit chars, AYS ???!
A string is always NUL-terminated.
Andreas.
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