Re: <empty header to my ASCIZ patchset>

[Ulf Samuelsson <binutils@emagii.com>]

Don't know why I did not get a subject line in my "git send-email".
Sorry about that.

A comment on the implementation.

The string is implemented internally as a number of "BYTE <value>" 
statements.

This seemed to be the simplest way of doing it.

Most use of this feature will typically only have a couple of such 
statements
and since this is my first addition to the code, I do not have a good 
overview
of the internals.

Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson


Den 2023-02-10 kl. 18:44, skrev Ulf Samuelsson via Binutils:
>  From binutils@emagii.com # This line is ignored.
> From: binutils@emagii.com
> Reply-To:
> Subject: ASCIZ Command for output section
> In-Reply-To:
>
> Introduce an ASCIZ command for an output section
> When generating a header for an embedded system
> there is often a need to add text information.
>
> There are arguments for generating the header in the linker
> instead of compiling the header as part of the program.
> The lack of support for strings makes this process a bit unwieldy.
>
> The ASCIZ command allows you to specify a zero-terminated string as a parameter.
>
> Example:
>
>      ASCIZ "This is a string"
>
> The string contains 16 characters, but a NUL character is added to the end,
> so the areas reserved is 16+1 = 17 characters.
>
> Ideally, there should be a command which reserves a fixed size area.
>
> I:E:
>
>      ASCII 20, "This is a string"
>
> but I have failed to get make this work in 'ld',
> so this patch series is limited to ASCIZ.
>
> Best Regards
> Ulf Samuelsson
>
> [PATCH 1/4] ldlex.l: Add ASCIZ token
> [PATCH 2/4] ldgram.y: Add 'ASCIZ <string>' command
> [PATCH 3/4] Parse ASCIZ command
> [PATCH 4/4] Document the ASCIZ command
>