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From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, ths@networkno.de,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Introduce __pa_symbol()
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:57:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452E2DAC.9080207@innova-card.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012.184855.108739419.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:13:01 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> RELOC_HIDE(x) is used because arithmetic on symbol addresses is
>> undefined in C language. It avoid gcc to know that:
>>
>> 	RELOC_HIDE(&_end) + OFFSET
>>
>> is an operation on a symbol address and thus avoid an undefined
>> operation.
> 
> Thanks, I see, but can not imagine the case the RELOC_HIDE() is
> _really_ needed.  Do you have any example?
> 

No I don't have any example but you can take a look to

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/23/175

		Franck

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11 12:08 [PATCH 0/5] Get ride of CPHYSADDR() in setup.c Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] Make __pa() uses CPHYSADDR() if really needed Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 13:33   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-11 14:15     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 15:30       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-11 16:01         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 17:07           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-12 10:05           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-12 11:49             ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-12 12:37               ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-10-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] setup.c: get ride of CPHYSADDR() Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] setup.c: clean up initrd related code Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-13  8:23   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] Introduce __pa_symbol() Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-11 15:34   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-11 16:13     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-12  9:48       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-12 11:57         ` Franck Bui-Huu [this message]
2006-10-12 14:27           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-11 12:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] setup.c: use __pa_symbol() where needed Franck Bui-Huu

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