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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:51:18 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/41] m68k: fix macro syntax to make current binutils happy
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:11:35AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 00:27, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > recent as(1) doesn't think that . terminates a macro name, so
> > getuser.l is _not_ treated as invoking getuser with .l as the
> > first argument.
> 
> Al, please don't send the binutils patches yet, I simply need more time to 
> figure out how to deal with it and it's not a critical patch.
> Linus, please don't apply patch 8 and 9.

OK.  Nothing else depends on those; however, getuser.l stuff _is_ documented.

Frankly, my preference long-term would be to kill the .macro and just
use C preprocessor for expansion.  Do you have any objections against
such variant?