On 27/08/2020 22:23, Joe Buehler via Gcc-help wrote: temp.c: In function main : temp.c:4:2: warning: asm operand 0 probably doesn t match constraints __asm__ volatile(".8byte %0\n\t" : : "i" ("message %s\n")); ^~~~~~~ temp.c:4:2: error: impossible constraint in asm I'd use the "S" constraint. > I am unable to code something similar manually using inline asm because > the string is a format string containing % characters, which inline asm > will of course try to interpret. (Does gcc provide anything to escape % > chars in a literal string?) "%%" -- Andrew Haley (he/him) Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> https://keybase.io/andrewhaley EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671