Re: [RFC] ARM binutils feature churn causing kernel problems

Russell King
2004-10-07T15:02:15Z

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:35:32PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> The patch by Russel King seems ok to me, although I prefer Rusty's idea
> of not using any symbol that is not in the form "[A-Za-z0-9_]+". We just
> need to check if there are any real world users of these "weird" symbols.

This may filter out too much - we have symbols starting with a '.' on
ARM, particularly used in some of the assembly code, which are useful
to be decoded back to names, such as ".bug".

However, including "." means that names like "__func__.0" also get
included, which is probably a bad thing. So, maybe it needs to be

[A-Za-z0-9_\.][A-Za-z0-9_]*

?

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Russell King
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