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
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