4 files changed, 55 insertions, 66 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/nativeGen/PPC/Ppr.hs b/compiler/nativeGen/PPC/Ppr.hs
index d7175b8689..6aafb595c6 100644
--- a/compiler/nativeGen/PPC/Ppr.hs
+++ b/compiler/nativeGen/PPC/Ppr.hs
@@ -125,12 +125,9 @@ pprDatas :: CmmStatics -> SDoc
 pprDatas (Statics lbl dats) = vcat (pprLabel lbl : map pprData dats)
 
 pprData :: CmmStatic -> SDoc
-pprData (CmmString str)          = pprASCII str
-pprData (CmmUninitialised bytes) = keyword <> int bytes
-    where keyword = sdocWithPlatform $ \platform ->
-                    case platformOS platform of
-                    OSAIX    -> text ".space "
-                    _        -> text ".skip "
+pprData (CmmString str)
+  = text "\t.string" <+> doubleQuotes (pprASCII str)
+pprData (CmmUninitialised bytes) = text ".space " <> int bytes
 pprData (CmmStaticLit lit)       = pprDataItem lit
 
 pprGloblDecl :: CLabel -> SDoc
@@ -151,15 +148,6 @@ pprLabel lbl = pprGloblDecl lbl
             $$ pprTypeAndSizeDecl lbl
             $$ (ppr lbl <> char ':')
 
-
-pprASCII :: [Word8] -> SDoc
-pprASCII str
-  = vcat (map do1 str) $$ do1 0
-    where
-       do1 :: Word8 -> SDoc
-       do1 w = text "\t.byte\t" <> int (fromIntegral w)
-
-
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- pprInstr: print an 'Instr'
 
diff --git a/compiler/nativeGen/PprBase.hs b/compiler/nativeGen/PprBase.hs
index d96b18783d..58566cf812 100644
--- a/compiler/nativeGen/PprBase.hs
+++ b/compiler/nativeGen/PprBase.hs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ module PprBase (
         castDoubleToWord8Array,
         floatToBytes,
         doubleToBytes,
+        pprASCII,
         pprSectionHeader
 )
 
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ import Data.Array.ST
 import Control.Monad.ST
 
 import Data.Word
+import Data.Char
 
 
 
@@ -82,6 +84,51 @@ doubleToBytes d
         return (map fromIntegral [i0,i1,i2,i3,i4,i5,i6,i7])
      )
 
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Printing ASCII strings.
+--
+-- Print as a string and escape non-printable characters.
+-- This is similar to charToC in Utils.
+
+pprASCII :: [Word8] -> SDoc
+pprASCII str
+  -- Transform this given literal bytestring to escaped string and construct
+  -- the literal SDoc directly.
+  -- See Trac #14741
+  -- and Note [Pretty print ASCII when AsmCodeGen]
+  = text $ foldr (\w s -> (do1 . fromIntegral) w ++ s) "" str
+    where
+       do1 :: Int -> String
+       do1 w | '\t' <- chr w = "\\t"
+             | '\n' <- chr w = "\\n"
+             | '"'  <- chr w = "\\\""
+             | '\\' <- chr w = "\\\\"
+             | isPrint (chr w) = [chr w]
+             | otherwise = '\\' : octal w
+
+       octal :: Int -> String
+       octal w = [ chr (ord '0' + (w `div` 64) `mod` 8)
+                 , chr (ord '0' + (w `div` 8) `mod` 8)
+                 , chr (ord '0' + w `mod` 8)
+                 ]
+
+{-
+Note [Pretty print ASCII when AsmCodeGen]
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Previously, when generating assembly code, we created SDoc with
+`(ptext . sLit)` for every bytes in literal bytestring, then
+combine them using `hcat`.
+
+When handling literal bytestrings with millions of bytes,
+millions of SDoc would be created and to combine, leading to
+high memory usage.
+
+Now we escape the given bytestring to string directly and construct
+SDoc only once. This improvement could dramatically decrease the
+memory allocation from 4.7GB to 1.3GB when embedding a 3MB literal
+string in source code. See Trac #14741 for profiling results.
+-}
+
 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- Printing section headers.
 --
diff --git a/compiler/nativeGen/SPARC/Ppr.hs b/compiler/nativeGen/SPARC/Ppr.hs
index b4cdbda369..7fc3e2111f 100644
--- a/compiler/nativeGen/SPARC/Ppr.hs
+++ b/compiler/nativeGen/SPARC/Ppr.hs
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ pprDatas :: CmmStatics -> SDoc
 pprDatas (Statics lbl dats) = vcat (pprLabel lbl : map pprData dats)
 
 pprData :: CmmStatic -> SDoc
-pprData (CmmString str)          = pprASCII str
+pprData (CmmString str)
+  = vcat (map do1 str) $$ do1 0
+    where
+       do1 :: Word8 -> SDoc
+       do1 w = text "\t.byte\t" <> int (fromIntegral w)
 pprData (CmmUninitialised bytes) = text ".skip " <> int bytes
 pprData (CmmStaticLit lit)       = pprDataItem lit
 
@@ -130,15 +134,6 @@ pprLabel lbl = pprGloblDecl lbl
             $$ pprTypeAndSizeDecl lbl
             $$ (ppr lbl <> char ':')
 
-
-pprASCII :: [Word8] -> SDoc
-pprASCII str
-  = vcat (map do1 str) $$ do1 0
-    where
-       do1 :: Word8 -> SDoc
-       do1 w = text "\t.byte\t" <> int (fromIntegral w)
-
-
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- pprInstr: print an 'Instr'
 
diff --git a/compiler/nativeGen/X86/Ppr.hs b/compiler/nativeGen/X86/Ppr.hs
index 141e781cc6..bf449d044e 100644
--- a/compiler/nativeGen/X86/Ppr.hs
+++ b/compiler/nativeGen/X86/Ppr.hs
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ import Outputable
 
 import Data.Word
 
-import Data.Char
-
 import Data.Bits
 
 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -243,45 +241,6 @@ pprLabel lbl = pprGloblDecl lbl
             $$ pprTypeDecl lbl
             $$ (ppr lbl <> char ':')
 
-{-
-Note [Pretty print ASCII when AsmCodeGen]
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Previously, when generating assembly code, we created SDoc with
-`(ptext . sLit)` for every bytes in literal bytestring, then
-combine them using `hcat`.
-
-When handling literal bytestrings with millions of bytes,
-millions of SDoc would be created and to combine, leading to
-high memory usage.
-
-Now we escape the given bytestring to string directly and construct
-SDoc only once. This improvement could dramatically decrease the
-memory allocation from 4.7GB to 1.3GB when embedding a 3MB literal
-string in source code. See Trac #14741 for profiling results.
--}
-
-pprASCII :: [Word8] -> SDoc
-pprASCII str
-  -- Transform this given literal bytestring to escaped string and construct
-  -- the literal SDoc directly.
-  -- See Trac #14741
-  -- and Note [Pretty print ASCII when AsmCodeGen]
-  = ptext $ sLit $ foldr (\w s -> (do1 . fromIntegral) w ++ s) "" str
-    where
-       do1 :: Int -> String
-       do1 w | '\t' <- chr w = "\\t"
-             | '\n' <- chr w = "\\n"
-             | '"'  <- chr w = "\\\""
-             | '\\' <- chr w = "\\\\"
-             | isPrint (chr w) = [chr w]
-             | otherwise = '\\' : octal w
-
-       octal :: Int -> String
-       octal w = [ chr (ord '0' + (w `div` 64) `mod` 8)
-                 , chr (ord '0' + (w `div` 8) `mod` 8)
-                 , chr (ord '0' + w `mod` 8)
-                 ]
-
 pprAlign :: Int -> SDoc
 pprAlign bytes
         = sdocWithPlatform $ \platform ->