Re: no code generation for c strings

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Interesting, I tried this and dumped the asm, similar there, but as
>> soon as you add more code, it just gets confusing, because it never
>> references the actual label for the string anywhere.
> [...]
>> S3 : constant C.char_array := "hello" & C.char'Val (0);
>> begin
>> --     Put_Line (C.To_Ada (S3));
> 
> You've commented out the only place where the variable is referenced --
> here, it made up a label (LC1) and referenced that.
> 

Yeah that was on purpose as it produced a lot of stuff that complicated
looking at it, in hindsight I probably should've just done an assignment,
might've produced less. 

I'm still not sure why your way of doing this produced the desired effect
though.