From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assembly
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:49:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602010949.19428.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060201083243.GB24893@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 09:32, Russell King wrote:
> @ is the comment character on ARM, so this can't go here - we use
>
> .type name, %function
>
> instead. Interestingly, the info pages for as seem to indicate that
> there's a number of alternatives - maybe the most benign one should
> be used, iow:
>
> .type name, "function"
>
> or alternatively make ENDPROC arch-overridable.
Actually it could be just per architecture. Or do you see ARM specific
assembly code using ENDPROC() any time soon? And there are no portable
assembly files.
I assume Jan only wants/needs it for x86(-32/64) and perhaps ia64/ppc.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 22:31 Fw: [PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assembly Andrew Morton
2006-02-01 7:36 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-01 8:32 ` Russell King
2006-02-01 8:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-01 9:09 ` Russell King
2006-02-01 11:40 ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-08 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-01 13:50 ` Ralf Baechle
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