Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:37:08 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/41] m68k: fix macro syntax to make current binutils happy |
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:51:18AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > 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?
Scratch that; too much PITA to implement the horrors you've got there (vararg recursive macros <shudder>).
Al, very tempted to do scripts/m4/ - would far more compact than e.g. kconfig, if we don't bother with GNU extensions; classic m4 is essentially a weekend project... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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