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In chapter 4, in the cpuid2.s example, should the line:
.lcomm buffer, 12
be
.lcomm buffer, 13
So that the string is zero terminated before being passed to printf?
No because the directive 'asciz' already takes care of adding a null character to the output. If the code was using .ascii then indeed one more byte would be needed to hold the NULL pointer.
Is this an error?
