Re: [PATCH 1/many] PROC macro to annotate functions in assembly files

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 05:20:14 EST


>>> "Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxx> 18.12.08 10:51 >>>
>Agreed. I vote to complement the existing ENDPROC annotation with
>the proposed PROC annotation. Let's call that an extension, not
>something new ;). As it stands it is not impossible to go with
>ENTRY/ENDPROC for code and ENTRY/END for data. However, ENTRY

Not really: At least on ia64 these cannot be mixed (and there as well as
any other architectures that may have such requirements) replacing
ENTRY() with PROC() and END() with ENDPROC() will likely be necessary.

>implies alignment and the prefered alignment for code and data
>might differ.

Jan

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