linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86: Final unification of local

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Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:59:51 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86: Final unification of local_{32|64}.h

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 15:48 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > Do you have a stylistic preference between these two options:
> > 
> > Option 1) Rely on CPP string constant concatenation
> > 
> > // possibly include trailing space here to avoid remembering
> > // leading space on the register names
> > # define _ASM_INC "incl" 
> > 
> > static inline void local_inc(local_t *l)
> > {
> > 	__asm__ __volatile__(
> > 		_ASM_INC " %0"
> > 		:"+m" (l->a.counter));
> > }
> > 
> 
> This is what I have used up to this point, except including the space in 
> the macro:
> 
> #define _ASM_INC " incl "
> 
> 	_ASM_INC "%0"

Not sure if you were just tossing a space on the end of my example,
but do you also put a leading space on the " incl " in addition to
the trailing space?

Harvey

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