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<h3 class="section">7.87 <code>.string</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string8</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string16</code></h3>
<p>"<var>str</var>", <code>.string32</code> "<var>str</var>", <code>.string64</code> "<var>str</var>"
<p><a name="index-string_002c-copying-to-object-file-475"></a><a name="index-string8_002c-copying-to-object-file-476"></a><a name="index-string16_002c-copying-to-object-file-477"></a><a name="index-string32_002c-copying-to-object-file-478"></a><a name="index-string64_002c-copying-to-object-file-479"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bstring_007d-directive-480"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bstring8_007d-directive-481"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bstring16_007d-directive-482"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bstring32_007d-directive-483"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bstring64_007d-directive-484"></a>
Copy the characters in <var>str</var> to the object file. You may specify more than
one string to copy, separated by commas. Unless otherwise specified for a
particular machine, the assembler marks the end of each string with a 0 byte.
You can use any of the escape sequences described in <a href="Strings.html#Strings">Strings</a>.
<p>The variants <code>string16</code>, <code>string32</code> and <code>string64</code> differ from
the <code>string</code> pseudo opcode in that each 8-bit character from <var>str</var> is
copied and expanded to 16, 32 or 64 bits respectively. The expanded characters
are stored in target endianness byte order.
<p>Example:
<pre class="smallexample"> .string32 "BYE"
expands to:
.string "B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E\0\0\0" /* On little endian targets. */
.string "\0\0\0B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E" /* On big endian targets. */
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