From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor
 macro
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:49:54 -0700
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To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
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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.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

    J