Re: [RFC 1/3] add support for exporting symbols from .S files

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:18:07 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> +.macro __EXPORT_SYMBOL sym section symtab strtab
> +	.section \section,"a",@progbits
> +	.type \symtab, @object
> +	.ifeq BITS_PER_LONG-32
> +	.align 3
> +\symtab:
> +	.long \sym
> +	.long \strtab
> +	.else
> +	.align 4

This won't be portable across architectures as .align is sometimes in
bytes and sometimes a power of two.  You can use .balign or .p2align
portably on gas, though. 

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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