A86 Assembler - GAS: defining assemble time costants in Intel syntax

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GAS: defining assemble time costants in Intel syntax

Ermo

2004-07-29, 3:55 pm

I'd like to initialize a symbolic costant with the size of a piece of data,
when in "intel_syntax noprefix" mode. As far as I know, code should be:

..intel_syntax noprefix

..data
Data: .asciz "My data"
DATA_LEN = . - Data

..text
push DATA_LEN

GAS does compute the correct value for DATA_LEN, but when it comes to
assembling the push instruction, it does as if it is:

push dword ptr [DATA_LEN]

So, how do you get the wanted output when in the stated mode?

Thank you in advance.

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