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From: "Marty Leisner" <mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: what's the purpose of SYMBOL_NAME()
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:57:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106141657.MAA09198@mailhost.eng.mc.xerox.com> (raw)



I'm read Bovet's "Understand the Linux Kernel"
and looked at the assembly routine setup_idt...

I noticed the assembly has SYMBOL_NAME
(its all over the place).

This is define in include/linux/linkage.h

to just:
#define SYMBOL_NAME(X) X

(this wasn't in Bovet's book).

What's the purpose?  

marty		mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com   
Don't  confuse education with schooling.
	Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra

             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-14 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-14 16:57 Marty Leisner [this message]
2001-06-14 17:34 ` what's the purpose of SYMBOL_NAME() Brian Gerst

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