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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What exactly is __ALIGN_STR in pnpbios/bioscalls.c for?
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:38:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806213823.GG2746@fs.tum.de> (raw)

Hi,

include/linux/linkage.h in kernel 2.6 includes #define's for __ALIGN and 
__ALIGN_STR. In include/asm-i386/linkage.h, their values are changed 
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16.

It isn't obvious what exacly CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 is for (I've heard 
more than one opinion), and since the __ALIGN_STR usage in 
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c is the only non-m68k/ppc usage of one of 
these two #define's I wonder whether you might be able to enlighten me 
what CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 exactly is for?

TIA
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-06 21:38 Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-21 17:56 What exactly is __ALIGN_STR in pnpbios/bioscalls.c for? Adrian Bunk
2004-11-21 20:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-21 22:17   ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-01-10  2:22 Adrian Bunk

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