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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux•ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Replaces long number representation by BIT() macro
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 11:16:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190702161635.GO18316@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imskihvd.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:19:34AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> What we could do is switch to the `UL` macro from include/linux/const.h,
> rather than using our own ASM_CONST.

You need gas 2.28 or later for that though.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=86b80085
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=e140100a

What is the minimum required (for powerpc) now?


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-02 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13 18:02 [RFC PATCH] Replaces long number representation by BIT() macro Leonardo Bras
2019-06-13 20:24 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-07-02 15:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-02 16:16   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-07-02 16:48     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-07 13:15       ` Michael Ellerman

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