PR24125, Assertion failure with embedded NULs in string

[Alan Modra]

An assertion that can be triggered by user input is wrong, so remove
it.  I believe the embedded NUL would have been accepted before the
PR20902 patch, but that seems like a misfeature to me.

	PR 20902
	PR 24125
	* read.c (stringer): Delete assertion.

diff --git a/gas/read.c b/gas/read.c
index 3c84d4388c..228fe7a240 100644
--- a/gas/read.c
+++ b/gas/read.c
@@ -5364,8 +5364,6 @@ stringer (int bits_appendzero)
 	  if (append_zero)
 	    stringer_append_char (0, bitsize);
 
-	  know (input_line_pointer[-1] == '\"');
-
 #if !defined(NO_LISTING) && defined (OBJ_ELF)
 	  /* In ELF, when gcc is emitting DWARF 1 debugging output, it
 	     will emit .string with a filename in the .debug section

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM