missing HexString documentation

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Feb 8 19:31:54 UTC 2018


On 2/8/2018 10:49 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 2/8/18 1:42 PM, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>> On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 18:31:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>     db    0ffffffdeh,0ffffffadh,0ffffffbeh,0ffffffefh    ;....
>> But it looks like they are all dchar, so 4x the space vs x"deadbeef"?

The 'db' means 'define byte'. dw for words, dd for 32 bit words.

> I was looking at that too when I was testing the differences, but actually, it's 
> the same when you use x"deadbeef".

Yes.


> I wonder if it's an issue with how obj2asm prints it out? Surely, that data 
> array must be contiguous, and they must be bytes. Otherwise the resulting code 
> would be wrong.

Yes. I just never bothered to fix it.



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