* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 >
Andrew, this asm-compat.h patch should be replaced by the asm.h patch from Peter. Here it is, straight from the x86 merge git repository : From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:59:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86: add <asm/asm.h> X-Git-Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fhpa%2Flinux-2.6-x86-headermerge.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b02f15537b3bf43e347214cf14bad80aeaef1caf;hp=54866f032307063776b4eff7eadb131d47f9f9b4 x86: add <asm/asm.h> Create <asm/asm.h>, with common definitions suitable for assembly unification. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/include/asm-x86/asm.h b/include/asm-x86/asm.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5006eb --- /dev/null +++ b/include/asm-x86/asm.h @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +#ifndef _ASM_X86_ASM_H +#define _ASM_X86_ASM_H + +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 +/* 32 bits */ + +# define _ASM_PTR " .long " +# define _ASM_ALIGN " .balign 4 " + +#else +/* 64 bits */ + +# define _ASM_PTR " .quad " +# define _ASM_ALIGN " .balign 8 " + +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */ + +#endif /* _ASM_X86_ASM_H */ -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
