PR24125, Assertion failure with embedded NULs in string

An assertion that can be triggered by user input is wrong, so remove
it.  I believe the NUL would have been accepted before the PR20902
patch.

	PR 20902
	PR 24125
	* read.c (stringer): Delete assertion.

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 972e227c626270d67a419d976308b1c19e971dc4..a930a842424cf2ab934910af6abd7e75006aad1a 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2019-01-25  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+       PR 20902
+       PR 24125
+       * read.c (stringer): Delete assertion.
+
 2019-01-21  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
        * po/uk.po: Updated Ukranian translation.

diff --git a/gas/read.c b/gas/read.c
index 3c84d4388c841567a32057d05e720462115a6c3c..228fe7a240e74f6253ce459ea00b3e385c452f6f 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/read.c
+++ b/gas/read.c
@@ -5364,8 +5364,6 @@ stringer (int bits_appendzero)
          if (append_zero)
            stringer_append_char (0, bitsize);
 
-         know (input_line_pointer[-1] == '\"');
-
 #if !defined(NO_LISTING) && defined (OBJ_ELF)
          /* In ELF, when gcc is emitting DWARF 1 debugging output, it
             will emit .string with a filename in the .debug section