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

[Rusty Russell]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 00:18:07 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This makes it possible to export symbols from assembly files, instead
> of having to export them through an extra ksyms.c file.
>
> I found this nicer to implement using a gas macro than a cpp macro.
...
> +	.ifeq BITS_PER_LONG-32
> +	.align 3
> +\symtab:
> +	.long \sym
> +	.long \strtab
> +	.else
> +	.align 4

Good work!   Hmm, you can .balign BITS_PER_LONG/8 outside the ifeq.  
Unfortunately .long doesn't do the Right Thing on 64 bit, so getting rid of 
the if is harder.

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Rusty.
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