Observation: Character string handling with as65 assembler

[phillipeaton]

The above string, when assembled with as65, produces:

...instead of:

The backslash would appear to be escaping the '4'.

The workaround I'm using is (note, binary start address is $2000):

...which produces:

I'm not sure if a program change is necessary, I suppose you could have a switch to render \ a non-printing character?

[Arakula]

I could, but that's assembler-specific (others might, and do, handle \ as a simple character). I'll think about it.

[Arakula]

And your workaround is a good one.

[phillipeaton]

that's assembler-specific...

So are all the other assembler-specific directives! For example, fcc/fcb seem somewhat obsolete these days 🙂

I'll let you know if I come across any other assemblers that do the same thing.

[phillipeaton]

Nothing needed for this issue.