On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Octavian Purdila wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2007 11:26, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i can sort of see what it represents, but what's the exact meaning > > of checking for that preprocessor symbol? thanks. > > > > Some of the headers are included in assembler source. __ASSEMBLY__ > keeps out C constructs when "compiling" assembler sources. > > For example, ./arch/i386/relocate_kernel.S is including > <asm-i386/page.h>, which has all kinds of C constructs like > typedefs, functions declarations, etc. that do not make sense in > assembly. Nethertheless, there are some usefull macro-definitions > like PAGE_SHIT, PAGE_SIZE, etc. which we want to use even in > assembly. i suspected as much, i just wanted to make sure, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
