explaination needed.

[Vadiraj C S <vadiraj@odysseytec.com>]

Hello  Everyone!!

	I was just looking at the asm code generated by gcc. I could not get some of the stuffs, here, I'm familiar with
nasm assembler syntax, but this does not seem to be nasm syntax. 

 the code is for the following c program
int main()
{
	char *c ="1"
	c[0]= "2" ;
}


asm code for the above..

  .file   "temp.c"
        .section        .rodata
.LC0:
        .string "1"
        .text
        .align 2
.globl main
        .type   main,@function
main:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        subl    $8, %esp
        andl    $-16, %esp
        movl    $0, %eax
        subl    %eax, %esp
        movl    $.LC0, -4(%ebp)
        movl    -4(%ebp), %eax
        movb    $50, (%eax)
        leave
        ret
.Lfe1:
        .size   main,.Lfe1-main
        .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 3.2"

  what syntax is this, and what does $ represent. does the .rodata mean readonly data?

 Thanks in advance..

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	Regards
	Vadiraj C S