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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: symbol.h fix for ARM
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:32:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87veywfd3e.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511132124.07486.T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk> (Timothy Baldwin's message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:24:07 +0000")

Timothy Baldwin <tim.lists@majoroak.f2s.com> writes:

> On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 21:04, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Timothy Baldwin <tim.lists@majoroak.f2s.com> writes:
>> > In ARM GAS syntax "@" marks the start of comment, which breaks symbol.h.
>> > I choose double quotes as a replacement as they can't be used to start
>> > comments.
>> >
>> > 2005-11-13  Timothy Baldwin  <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
>> >
>> >         Fix symbol.h for ARM.
>> >
>> >         * include/grub/symbol.h: (FUNCTION): Use double quotes
>> > 	instead of "@" which marks the start of a comment on ARM.
>> > 	(VARIABLE): Likewise.
>>
>> Have you tested if other archs keep working with this patch applied?
>
> Tested both i386 and PowerPC. I don't see why it should break elsewhere as 
> giving double quotes a conflicting meaning would break .string etc. The GAS 
> manual does not mention any system dependences.

Cool.  I'll apply this patch right away.

--
Marco




      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13 19:15 symbol.h fix for ARM Timothy Baldwin
2005-11-13 21:04 ` Marco Gerards
2005-11-13 21:24   ` Timothy Baldwin
2005-11-13 21:32     ` Marco Gerards [this message]

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