On 10/19/2010 06:52 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > gas prior to (perhaps) 2.16.90 has problems with passing non- > parenthesized expressions containing spaces to macros. Spaces, however, > get inserted by cpp between any macro expanding to a number and a > subsequent + or -. For the +, current x86 gas then removes the space > again (future gas may not do so), but for the - the space gets retained > and is then considered a separator between macro arguments. > > Fix the respective definitions for both the - and + cases, so that they > neither contain spaces nor make cpp insert any (the latter by adding > seemingly redundant parentheses). > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxx> > It's ugly -- very ugly -- and will almost certainly bitrot and break again, but it's a lot less ugly than any other alternative I can think of. Unfortunately these versions of gas are not old enough that we can just kill them off, I don't think. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
