1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html> 3<!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". 4 5Copyright (C) 1991-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 6 7Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 8under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 9or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 10with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 11Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the 12section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". 13 --> 14<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.1, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> 15<head> 16<title>Using as: String</title> 17 18<meta name="description" content="Using as: String"> 19<meta name="keywords" content="Using as: String"> 20<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> 21<meta name="distribution" content="global"> 22<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> 23<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 24<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> 25<link href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" rel="index" title="AS Index"> 26<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> 27<link href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops" rel="up" title="Pseudo Ops"> 28<link href="Struct.html#Struct" rel="next" title="Struct"> 29<link href="Stab.html#Stab" rel="previous" title="Stab"> 30<style type="text/css"> 31<!-- 32a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} 33blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} 34div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} 35div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} 36div.indentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em} 37div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} 38div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} 39div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} 40div.smallindentedblock {margin-left: 3.2em; font-size: smaller} 41div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} 42kbd {font-style:oblique} 43pre.display {font-family: inherit} 44pre.format {font-family: inherit} 45pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} 46pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} 47pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} 48pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} 49pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} 50pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} 51span.nocodebreak {white-space:nowrap} 52span.nolinebreak {white-space:nowrap} 53span.roman {font-family:serif; font-weight:normal} 54span.sansserif {font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal} 55ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} 56--> 57</style> 58 59 60</head> 61 62<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> 63<a name="String"></a> 64<div class="header"> 65<p> 66Next: <a href="Struct.html#Struct" accesskey="n" rel="next">Struct</a>, Previous: <a href="Stab.html#Stab" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Stab</a>, Up: <a href="Pseudo-Ops.html#Pseudo-Ops" accesskey="u" rel="up">Pseudo Ops</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="AS-Index.html#AS-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> 67</div> 68<hr> 69<a name="g_t_002estring-_0022str_0022_002c-_002estring8-_0022str_0022_002c-_002estring16"></a> 70<h3 class="section">7.93 <code>.string</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string8</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string16</code></h3> 71<p>"<var>str</var>", <code>.string32</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string64</code> "<var>str</var>" 72</p> 73<a name="index-string_002c-copying-to-object-file"></a> 74<a name="index-string8_002c-copying-to-object-file"></a> 75<a name="index-string16_002c-copying-to-object-file"></a> 76<a name="index-string32_002c-copying-to-object-file"></a> 77<a name="index-string64_002c-copying-to-object-file"></a> 78<a name="index-string-directive"></a> 79<a name="index-string8-directive"></a> 80<a name="index-string16-directive"></a> 81<a name="index-string32-directive"></a> 82<a name="index-string64-directive"></a> 83 84<p>Copy the characters in <var>str</var> to the object file. You may specify more than 85one string to copy, separated by commas. Unless otherwise specified for a 86particular machine, the assembler marks the end of each string with a 0 byte. 87You can use any of the escape sequences described in <a href="Strings.html#Strings">Strings</a>. 88</p> 89<p>The variants <code>string16</code>, <code>string32</code> and <code>string64</code> differ from 90the <code>string</code> pseudo opcode in that each 8-bit character from <var>str</var> is 91copied and expanded to 16, 32 or 64 bits respectively. The expanded characters 92are stored in target endianness byte order. 93</p> 94<p>Example: 95</p><div class="smallexample"> 96<pre class="smallexample"> .string32 "BYE" 97expands to: 98 .string "B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E\0\0\0" /* On little endian targets. */ 99 .string "\0\0\0B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E" /* On big endian targets. */ 100</pre></div> 101 102 103 104 105 106</body> 107</html> 108