linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Partially revert patch that encloses asm-offset.h numbers in brackets

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Message-Id: <4CC5B8D3020000780001EFB4@vpn.id2.novell.com>
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

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