Re: [RFC] Standard way of generating assembler offsets

[Pantelis Antoniou]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Pantelis Antoniou <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:35:27 +0300
> 
>    If anyone is interested I have already made a perl
>    script that produces assembler offsets from structure
>    members.
> 
>    It doesn't need to run native since it reads the
>    header files, extract the structures and by using
>    objdump calculates the offsets automatically.
> 
> BTW, I assume you have already taken a look at how we
> do this on Sparc64.  See arch/sparc64/kernel/check_asm.sh
> and the "check_asm" target in arch/sparc64/kernel/Makefile
> 
> It also works in all cross-compilation etc. environments.
> And I bet it would work on every platform with very minimal
> changes, if any.
> 
> Franks a lot,
> David S. Miller
> [e-mail]

I've look at your script and it kinda flew over my head.

Would you mind explain this a bit?

Thanks