Re: thread_info implementation

[Bjorn Wesen]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>    Where's the problem to compute them automatically?
> 
> It requires ugly scripts that parse assembler files if you want it to
> work in a cross compilation requirement.  Check out
> arch/sparc64/kernel/check_asm.sh and the "check_asm" rule in the
> Makefile or the same directory in older trees to see what I mean.

We cross-compile all the time and don't have to parse assembler-files,
just compile a c-file and include the resulting asm into entry.S:

/* linux/arch/cris/entryoffsets.c
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2001 Axis Communications AB
 *
 * Generate structure offsets for use in entry.S.  No extra processing
 * needed more than compiling this file to assembly code.  Horrendous
 * assembly code will be generated, so don't look at that.
 *
 * Authors:     Hans-Peter Nilsson ([e-mail])
 */

/BW