Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:49:54 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Translate asm version of ELFNOTE macro into preprocessor macro |
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Ian Campbell wrote: > The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro > definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know > when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I > think we need to avoid using it. There are no other uses in mainline or > -mm. Old gas appears to just ignore it so you get "too many arguments" > type errors. > OK, seems reasonable. Eric Biederman solved this by having NOTE/ENDNOTE (or something like that) in his "bzImage with ELF header" patch, but I don't remember it being used in any way which is incompatible with using a CPP macro.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
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