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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] abstract type/size specification for assembly
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E0AC2A.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060201083243.GB24893@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

>>> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> 01.02.06 09:32:43 >>>
>@ is the comment character on ARM, so this can't go here - we use
>
>	.type name, %function
>
>instead.

Bad.

>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"

While gas seems to generally accept it, ias doesn't (and the assembly language spec for ia64 doesn't either).

>or alternatively make ENDPROC arch-overridable.

That seems to be the only choice then. I'll send a revised patch soon.

Jan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01 11:39 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
2006-02-01  9:09       ` Russell King
2006-02-01 11:40     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2006-02-08 16:11     ` Jan Beulich
2006-02-01 13:50 ` Ralf Baechle

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