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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:00:11 -0300
To: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: [Q] using int 0x21 to print text with inline asm
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At 23:35 25/08/97 GMT, firewind wrote:

[snipped]

>> myHappy = "Hello, world!";
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (3)
[snipped]

>3: you're assiging a string to a variable, but this string really has no
>   storage allocated for it.
>

This affirmation is incorrect! What this line of code does is to
_initialize_ the pointer myHappy with the address of the first element of
the constant array of char _"Hello, world!"_. Nothing particular wrong there.

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