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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: swsusp.S: meaningfull assembly labels
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:18:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625151858.GA27013@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406250827250.28070@chaos>

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:37:45AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> NO! You just made those labels public! The LOCAL symbols need to
> begin with ".L".  Now, if you have a 'copy_loop' in another module,
> linked with this, anywhere in the kernel, they will share the
> same address -- not what you expected, I'm sure! The assembler
> has some strange rules you need to understand. Use `nm` and you
> will find that your new labels are in the object file!

Er, no.  They'll show up in the object file.  That doesn't mean they're
global; static symbols also show up in the object file.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-25 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-25 11:59 swsusp.S: meaningfull assembly labels Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 12:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-25 15:18   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-06-25 16:02     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-25 18:48       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-06-25 19:29         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-25 19:39           ` Patrick Mochel
2004-06-25 16:10   ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 17:24     ` Richard B. Johnson

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