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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor macro
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:14:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156346074.12949.129.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EC6B12.4060909@goop.org>

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 07:49 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro
> > definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know
> > when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I
> > think we need to avoid using it. There are no other uses in mainline or
> > -mm. Old gas appears to just ignore it so you get "too many arguments"
> > type errors.
> >   
> OK, seems reasonable.  Eric Biederman solved this by having NOTE/ENDNOTE 
> (or something like that) in his "bzImage with ELF header" patch, but I 
> don't remember it being used in any way which is incompatible with using 
> a CPP macro.

I can't find that patch, does NOTE/ENDNOTE just do the push/pop .note
section?

That would solve the problem with the first argument of the macro being
a string but the final argument could still be for .asciz note contents.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-23 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-23 11:49 [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor macro Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 14:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 15:14   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2006-08-23 15:23     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 17:11       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-23 17:47         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-23 19:43           ` Ian Campbell
2006-08-23 21:02             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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