Re: why asmlinkage is needed?
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:27:51 -0300
In message <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9808161154140.2219-100000@p01-35.hartford.dialin.n
tp
lx.com>, Tom Rini writes:
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| On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980816104537.668A-100000@zero>, Tom Vier writes:
| > | On 16 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
| > | > asmlinkage is just a historical remnant from the great deays when Linux
| > | > was writen in C++ (somewhere around 0.97 I think).
| > |
| > | woah, the kernel used to be in c++? why c++ then a switch to c?
| >
| > Because g++ was a buggy piece of crap back then --- the three or so kernel
|
| With the newer, and what i understand to be less crappier g++ in egcs-1.1
| (and gcc-2.8.x ?) would this make any sense to do for 2.3.x ?
+--->8
It might even work now --- the g++ test was way back in the 0.99 series, g++
has come a long way since then.
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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