Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot | Date | 7 Jun 2003 14:27:34 -0700 |
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Followup to: <6un0gty981.fsf@zork.zork.net> By author: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes: > > >> > > What are .s files in arch/i386/boot, are they c sources of some sort? > >> > > Where can I find the specifications documents they were made from? > >> > > >> > There are not c files. > >> > They are assembler files > >> > > >> > Try running gcc on a c file with the -S option > >> > it will generate the same then you can tweak the > >> > assembler produced to make it faster. > >> > > >> Where can I find the .c files they were made from, > >> and the spec sheets the .c files were made from? > > > > You would have to find the original author of the person > > who tweaks the assembler in the .s file chances are the .c > > file is long gone though. > > If there were ever C files to begin with. It's not unheard-of for > people to write assembler code from scratch. >
The ones in the Linux kernel were all written from scratch.
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