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From: Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Hello Assembly
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:00:51 +0530
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>> DATA	string<>+0(SB)/8, $"Hello\n\z\z"
>
> Why are there two \zs? Shouldn't one be enough?

One should be enough, but 8c -S does two \z's (probably to pad it out
to exactly 8 bytes). It works either way, since the length we pass as
an argument to pwrite is still $7.

Regards,
Anant