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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:05:23 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com> To: "Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@...tmail.fm> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, <torvalds@...l.org>, "David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets >>> On 25.10.10 at 16:54, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote: > >> Isn't this a gas bug then? Anywhere you use a plain number you >> should also be permitted to use an expression. > > Whoever defined the gas assembly syntax for binutils specified that (N) as > an > operand defines an absolute address and N defines an immediate value. > > However, prefixing an expression with a unary plus works for me, so adding > this into my patch: > > - s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([-0-9]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; \ > + s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([-0-9]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 +(\2) /* \3 */:; \ > > Does that work for you? Alexander, you seem to be having access to a worst case system - could you give this a try? Thanks, Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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