From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: fjohnber@zoho.com (Fredrick)
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:32:48 -0800
Subject: DEFINE Macro
Message-ID: <4F066B60.5000701@zoho.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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Hi,

I am not able to understand the DEFINE macro used in
arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c

I suppose the DEFINE is present in
include/linux/kbuild.h
where it says
#define DEFINE(sym, val) \
         asm volatile("\n->" #sym " %0 " #val : : "i" (val))

What does the above mean?


-Fredrick