Invalid string literal in ASM

[Basile B.]

On Monday, 1 October 2018 at 08:14:07 UTC, dokutoku wrote:
> I get a compiler error when I try to put non-ASCII characters 
> in a string literal in the inline assembler.
>
> Is this part of the specifications?

It's not clear, see https://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html#raw_data:

"if an operand is a string literal, it is as if there were length 
operands, where length is the number of characters in the string"

db "e"; // ok
db "é"; // error

it seems that the second case should be accepted as db 195 db 169