From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections.
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 01:02:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tz44o2a3.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FB35C4.6060107@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Fri, 01 May 2009 10:47:48 -0700")
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>>
>>> What's wrong with @?
>> arm does not support it :-(
>> I recall it denote a comment in arm assembler.
>>
>> I could do some magic to detect the ARM case but I'm reluctant to do so.
>> I could also ignore the arm issue for now as it is not used by arm,
>> but that strikes me as the wrong approach.
>>
>
> If we really have to use different tokens, I would say:
>
> #ifdef __ARM__
> # define _PROGBITS %progbits /* or whatever */
> # define _NOBITS %nobits
> #else
> # define _PROGBITS @progbits
> # define _NOBITS @nobits
> #endif
GAS has always supported both '@' and '%', so '%' can be used
everywhere.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-01 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 19:54 [PATCH v2 0/6] macros for section name cleanup Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Add new NOSAVE_DATA linker script macro Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Add new CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA " Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Add new INIT_TASK_DATA() " Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Add new READ_MOSTLY_DATA(align) " Tim Abbott
2009-04-30 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Add support for __read_mostly to linux/cache.h Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 9:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Add new NOSAVE_DATA linker script macro Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 9:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Add new macros for page-aligned data and bss sections Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 13:54 ` Tim Abbott
2009-05-01 16:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-01 17:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 17:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-01 17:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-01 23:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-05-01 9:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] macros for section name cleanup Sam Ravnborg
2009-05-01 14:21 ` Sam Ravnborg
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