Re: [RFC 0/6] x86 tip asm ENTRY,ENDPROC cleanup

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 19 2009 - 11:13:53 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I see. But that would be new behaviour. I would propose to use
> > completely separate macro's to handle frame-setup code generation,
> > and keep ENTRY/GLOBAL/END/ENDPROC only for setting metadata and
> > alignment. I think it's worth it to spell out code-generating
> > macro's explicitly: there are not that many asm functions, and
> > quite a few of them would need special handling. I think noone
> > wants to see an ENDPROC_NOFRAMETEARDOWN ;).
> >
> > The common-case example would look like this.
> >
> > GLOBAL(c_callable_function)
> > ENTER
> > [asm-code]
> > LEAVE
> > ret
> > ENDPROC(c_callable_function)
> >
>
> I guess I'm a bit concerned about people omitting them, but it's equally
> concerning that people use the wrong macros, so yes, it's probably the
> better thing in the long run.

ok - i've applied Cyrill's patches to tip/x86/asm.

Ingo
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