On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 7:45 AM bootmgr--- via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The gcc I compiled generated wrong assembly code on Windows. > This gcc is Canadian compiled from Ubuntu, and I did not apply any patches on https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages. > Error Messages: > H:\cxx>gcc hw.c > C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccaNW5Tf.s: Assembler messages: > C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccaNW5Tf.s:39: Warning: missing closing `"' > C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccaNW5Tf.s:39: Error: invalid character (0xa in mnemonic > > > GCC configured by ../gcc/configure --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --enable-gra > phite --enable-languages=c,c++,lto --enable-mingw-wildcard --enable-threads=posix --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libs > tdcxx-verbose --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-large-address-aware --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-m > ingw32 --prefix=/mingw64 The problem is this line (and it’s not line number 39, as in your error message): .ascii "Hello world!\^@"^M (as displayed by Emacs) The last few characters in hex: 5c 00 22 0d 0a. There is a 00 byte after the backslash for some reason.