On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 07:49 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Ian Campbell wrote: > > The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro > > definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know > > when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I > > think we need to avoid using it. There are no other uses in mainline or > > -mm. Old gas appears to just ignore it so you get "too many arguments" > > type errors. > > > OK, seems reasonable. Eric Biederman solved this by having NOTE/ENDNOTE > (or something like that) in his "bzImage with ELF header" patch, but I > don't remember it being used in any way which is incompatible with using > a CPP macro. I can't find that patch, does NOTE/ENDNOTE just do the push/pop .note section? That would solve the problem with the first argument of the macro being a string but the final argument could still be for .asciz note contents. Ian.
