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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:17:03 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Consistently use the name asm-offsets.h
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> mips has it own private gen-asm-offset macro,
> 
> The important part being:
> 
> sed -ne "/^@@@/s///p"; \
> 
> compared to the generic one:
> 
> sed -ne "/^->/{s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; s:->::; p;}"; \
> 
> I wonder why the assembly for mips is so different...
> So for now two architectures needs special care: mips and ia64.

MIPS uses it's own rules only for readability of the generated file.

  Ralf