Re: ENTRY-macro in linkage.h

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Uwe Reimann wrote:

> My problem is how to add the whitespace. The preprocessor seems to strip 
> it. Consider this (test.S):
> 
> #define ENTRY(X) \
>   .global X##; \
> X##:   
> 
> ENTRY(foo)
> ENTRY(bar)
> 
> gcc -S test.S:
> 
> .global foo; foo:
> .global bar; bar:
> 
> For c4x-gcc, this has to be like this:
> 
>     .global foo
> foo:
>     .global bar
> bar:
> 
> Without the leading whitespace, .global is taken as a name of a label. 
> Without the newline before the labels, they are not recognized (taken as 
> comments).

You don't have to use the ENTRY macro anymore, it was useful when kernel 
could be in a.out format, so the underscore was automatically prepended to 
the symbol.

bye, Roman