Re: Asm style

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:07:03PM +0000, vda wrote:
> I'm using GCC 3.0.1 and seeing "multi-line literals are deprecated".
> Since a patch is necessary for that (and someone submitted it already)
> I'd like to hear from big kernel guys what asm statement style to use:
> 	asm(
> "		cmd	r,r\n"
> "lbl:		cmd	r,r\n"
> "		cmd	r,r\n"
> 		: spec
> 		: spec
> 	);
> [variable width for labels? I don't like it] or
> 	asm(
> 	"	cmd	r,r\n"
> 	"lbl:	cmd	r,r\n"
> 	"	cmd	r,r\n"
> 		: spec
> 		: spec
> 	);
> [better. But \n's are ugly] or
> #define NL "\n"
> 	asm(
> 	"	cmd	r,r" NL
> 	"lbl:	cmd	r,r" NL
> 	"	cmd	r,r" NL
> 		: spec
> 		: spec
> 	);

There's also:

	asm("\
	cmd	r,r\n\
lbl:	cmd	r,r\n\
	cmd	r,r\n" : spec : spec);


Or something similar (the trailing "\" added for continuation). Probably
the easiest way to patch existing asm.

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