From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach•com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew•cmu.edu>,
Tom Rini <trini@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm•org>,
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-ppc@lauterbach•com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:30:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112052130.15258@enzo.bigblue.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011205151721.A18191@nevyn.them.org>
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 21:17, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:18:26AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > > Franz Sirl wrote:
> > > >I've done
> > > >
> > > >-#define RELOC(x) (*PTRRELOC(&(x)))
> > > >+#define RELOC(x) (*({ typeof(x) * __ptr = PTRRELOC(&(x));
> > > >__asm__ ("" : "=r" (__ptr) : "0" (__ptr)); __ptr;}))
> > > >
> > > >a while ago in
> > > ><http://source.mvista.com/pipermail/linuxppc-commit/2001-September/000
> > > >729.html>, seems nobody applied it so far.
> > >
> > > Ok. It needs to be propped.
> >
> > I think the reason this wasn't applied is that Paul said something about
> > thiws being horriyingly ugly. Corey, can you post a patch that changes
> > RELOC(x) into a function and nothing else? :)
>
> Has either of you tried to boot a kernel in which RELOC is a function?
> If I'm following any of what's going on here, function symbols are
> global. To call the function you would need to use RELOC.
RELOC is only used to relocate data.
Franz.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-05 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-04 16:13 Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1 Corey Minyard
2001-12-04 16:16 ` David Edelsohn
2001-12-04 16:39 ` Corey Minyard
2001-12-05 12:55 ` Franz Sirl
2001-12-05 16:18 ` Corey Minyard
2001-12-05 17:37 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-05 17:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-05 19:45 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-05 20:30 ` Franz Sirl
2001-12-07 13:01 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-12-07 20:57 ` AltiVec register ptrace support Kumar Gala
2001-12-07 22:23 ` Kevin Buettner
2001-12-07 22:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-14 18:52 ` Kumar Gala
2001-12-14 19:16 ` Jason R Thorpe
2001-12-15 2:08 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-12-15 17:44 ` Kumar Gala
2001-12-16 21:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-01-10 18:58 ` Kumar Gala
2001-12-05 21:59 ` Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1 Paul Mackerras
2001-12-05 20:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-05 20:20 ` David Edelsohn
2001-12-05 20:30 ` Franz Sirl [this message]
2001-12-06 0:59 ` Corey Minyard
2001-12-06 3:38 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-07 5:22 ` Corey Minyard
2001-12-05 20:51 ` Franz Sirl
2001-12-06 1:41 ` Corey Minyard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-06 16:03 who loads argc in elf binary??????? Alexandre Nikolaev
2001-03-07 19:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-03-07 19:15 ` David Edelsohn
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