Re: explaination needed.

[peter willy krause <wklux@yahoo.co.uk>]

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Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 06:54 schrieb Vadiraj C S:
> 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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