as: String
7.91 '.string' "STR", '.string8' "STR", '.string16'
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"STR", '.string32' "STR", '.string64' "STR"
Copy the characters in STR to the object file. You may specify more
than one string to copy, separated by commas. Unless otherwise
specified for a particular machine, the assembler marks the end of each
string with a 0 byte. You can use any of the escape sequences described
in 
Strings Strings.
The variants 'string16', 'string32' and 'string64' differ from the
'string' pseudo opcode in that each 8-bit character from STR is copied
and expanded to 16, 32 or 64 bits respectively. The expanded characters
are stored in target endianness byte order.
Example:
.string32 "BYE"
expands to:
.string "B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E\0\0\0" /* On little endian targets. */
.string "\0\0\0B\0\0\0Y\0\0\0E" /* On big endian targets. */
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