* read.c (cons_worker): Detect and reject unexpected string argument.

	testsuite/
	* gas/all/byte.s: New.
	* gas/all/byte.l: New.
	* gas/all/byte.d: New.
	* gas/all/gas.exp: Add it.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gas/read.c b/gas/read.c
index 4afb190..32ac5e2 100644
--- a/gas/read.c
+++ b/gas/read.c
@@ -3865,7 +3865,15 @@ cons_worker (int nbytes,	/* 1=.byte, 2=.word, 4=.long.  */
 	parse_mri_cons (&exp, (unsigned int) nbytes);
       else
 #endif
-	TC_PARSE_CONS_EXPRESSION (&exp, (unsigned int) nbytes);
+        {
+	  if (*input_line_pointer == '"')
+	    {
+	      as_bad (_("unexpected `\"' in expression"));
+	      ignore_rest_of_line ();
+	      return;
+	    }
+	  TC_PARSE_CONS_EXPRESSION (&exp, (unsigned int) nbytes);
+	}
 
       if (rva)
 	{