From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor macro
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:49:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EC6B12.4060909@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156333761.12949.35.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Ian Campbell wrote:
> The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro
> definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know
> when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I
> think we need to avoid using it. There are no other uses in mainline or
> -mm. Old gas appears to just ignore it so you get "too many arguments"
> type errors.
>
OK, seems reasonable. Eric Biederman solved this by having NOTE/ENDNOTE
(or something like that) in his "bzImage with ELF header" patch, but I
don't remember it being used in any way which is incompatible with using
a CPP macro.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 11:49 [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor macro Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 14:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-23 15:14 ` Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 15:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 17:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-23 17:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 17:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 19:43 ` Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 19:43 ` Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 21:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 21:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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