Re: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition
From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 15:07:41 EST
On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 21:02 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:58, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Like the __section macro, the __alias macro uses
> > macro # stringification to create quotes around
> > the section name used in the __attribute__.
> >
> > Remove the stringification and add quotes or a
> > stringification to the uses instead.
> >
>
> Why?
Using quotes in __section caused/causes differences
between clang and gcc.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/29/2187
Using common styles for details like this is good.