linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: make asm/asm.h work for asm code.

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:44:16 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make asm/asm.h work for asm code.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> +# define __ASM_INC    incl
> +# define __ASM_INC    incq
> +#define _ASM_INC    __ASM_INC
> +#define _ASM_INC    " " __stringify(__ASM_INC) " "

You have *exactly* as many #defines as if one would simply do four cases 
(32 C, 64 C, 32 asm, 64 asm), and that would be easier to read...

	-hpa
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