Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:05:08 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/8] Add asm-compat.h to x86 |
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Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > In assembly code and in gcc inline assembly, we need .long to express a "c long" > type on i386 and a .quad to express the same on x86_64. Use macros similar to > powerpc "PPC_LONG" to express those. Name chosen: ASM_LONG. (didn't feel like > X86_LONG was required)
In the x86 queue I already have a patch which adds <asm/asm.h> for this; I used the namespace _ASM_* and the name _ASM_PTR since in Linux it is what holds a pointer.
-hpa
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