what's the purpose of SYMBOL_NAME()

Marty Leisner (mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com)
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:57:33 -0400

I'm read Bovet's "Understand the Linux Kernel"
and looked at the assembly routine setup_idt...

I noticed the assembly has SYMBOL_NAME
(its all over the place).

This is define in include/linux/linkage.h

to just:
#define SYMBOL_NAME(X) X

(this wasn't in Bovet's book).

What's the purpose?

marty mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com
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