.ascii/.asciz: juxtaposition and comma

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Nov 17 14:21:18 GMT 2020


Hi Jan,

>>> .asciz "a", "b" "c", "d"
>>> .ascii "e", "f" "g", "h"

> And is it normal that no comma still separate arguments?

Ah - I admit that I had not noticed that.

> but I'd expect
> directives to be less "relaxed" in how arguments can be
> specified. IOW if the strings aren't concatenated in the case
> here, I'd have expected a syntax error instead.

Yeah, that is fair.  I am testing a local patch now...

Cheers
   Nick




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