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From: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@ruby.dti.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:40:49 +0900
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [MIPS] cpu/mips/cache.S: Introduce NESTED(),
 LEAF() and END()
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <47DE8444.3060603@ruby.dti.ne.jp> you wrote:
>> These macros have been widely used by MIPS assemblers, and of course
>> make codes more readable and easily maintainable.
> 
> I have to admit  that  for  me  the  resulting  code  is  NOT  better
> readable.  Indead of just reading a single source file, I now have to
> look up a header file for a number of macros.

You need to look up a header file, true. But these macros are worth
doing so.

> Speaking for myself, I don't see an improvement.

as can be seen from macro definitions, they specify some more
information ecplicitly; alignment, type of symbols, stack frame info
which helps generating debug info.

These macros or their variants have been used in SGI or Algorithmics
early MIPS programming, PMON, YAMON and of course Linux. They are good
helper for MIPS assemblers, so I hope get them in.

  Shinya