On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Il 06/06/2012 09:15, Steven Bosscher ha scritto:
>> + add_asm_printf ("%s\n\t.ascii \"%s\"\n",
>> + READONLY_DATA_SECTION_ASM_OP, string);
>> + else
>
> Need to escape the string as in mips_output_ascii, of course. :(
Well, I suppose so...
But I was wondering why mips writes out ident strings as ascii in the
first place.
The GCC version string is output as .ident with "normal" quoting, but
a user #ident is printed out as a .ascii. It has been like that since
the initial revision (r297, more than 20 years ago). See example at
the bottom of this mail (some test case in the test suite, but I don't
remember which one).
Shouldn't we just print out .ident for #ident? That would make things
a lot easier for me, at least :-)
Richard S.?
Ciao!
Steven
typedef char *ident;
#ident "This is ident"
ident i;
==>
.file 1 "t.c"
.section .mdebug.abi32
.previous
.gnu_attribute 4, 1
.rdata
.ascii "This is ident\000"
.comm i,4,4
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.8.0 20120604 (experimental) [trunk
revision 188182]"
