linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/8] Add asm-compat.h to x86

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:05:08 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] Add asm-compat.h to x86

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> In assembly code and in gcc inline assembly, we need .long to express a "c long"
> type on i386 and a .quad to express the same on x86_64. Use macros similar to
> powerpc "PPC_LONG" to express those. Name chosen: ASM_LONG. (didn't feel like
> X86_LONG was required)

In the x86 queue I already have a patch which adds <asm/asm.h> for this; 
I used the namespace _ASM_* and the name _ASM_PTR since in Linux it is 
what holds a pointer.

	-hpa

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