On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 09:32, Russell King wrote: > > > @ is the comment character on ARM, so this can't go here - we use > > > > .type name, %function > > > > instead. Interestingly, the info pages for as seem to indicate that > > there's a number of alternatives - maybe the most benign one should > > be used, iow: > > > > .type name, "function" > > > > or alternatively make ENDPROC arch-overridable. > > Actually it could be just per architecture. Or do you see ARM specific > assembly code using ENDPROC() any time soon? And there are no portable > assembly files.
I do have a number of .type and .size stuff in the ARM assembly files - it aids objdump in working out whether it should dump the contents as data or code. IOW, it might be useful to have. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
