Re: [PATCH] XBUG(comment) BUG enhancement

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Fri, 24 May 2002 17:19:51 +1000


In message <20020524024906.A1547@redhat.com> you write:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:24:30PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > __asm__ __volatile__( "ud2\n" \
> > - "\t.word %c0\n" \
> > + "\t.long %c0\n" \
> > "\t.long %c1\n" \
> > - : : "i" (__LINE__), "i" (__FILE__))
> > + : : "i" (__stringify(__LINE__)), "i" (__FILE__))
>
> This part I can't agree with: changing the line number to a string
> results in excess pollution of the data segment with useless strings
> that are frequently duplicates. Why not leave it as a number?

To unify the trap handler to handle both cases. If you really think
this is unacceptable bloat, please measure the difference, then use
line number zero or something for XBUG and place the comment string at
in a third .long.

But I was lazy, and this was tested...
Rusty.

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