On 09/07/2015 06:56 PM, David Wohlferd wrote:
In order for the doc maintainers to approve this patch, I need to have
someone sign off on the technical accuracy. Now that I have included
the points we have discussed (attached), hopefully we are there.
Original text: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedoc
In order for the doc maintainers to approve this patch, I need to have
someone sign off on the technical accuracy. Now that I have included
the points we have discussed (attached), hopefully we are there.
Original text: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Asm-Labels.html
Proposed text: http://l
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:02:14PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
> >>how about replacing the existing
> >>text ("It does not make sense to use this feature with a non-static
> >>local variable since such variables do not have assembler names.") with
> >>"Do not use this feature with a non-static loc
David Wohlferd writes:
> "gcc does not support using this feature with a non-static local variable
> since typically such variables do not have assembler names."
The technical term is "linkage", btw. An identifier with no linkage has
no visible name in the assembler output.
Andreas.
--
Andre
[snip]
how about replacing the existing
text ("It does not make sense to use this feature with a non-static
local variable since such variables do not have assembler names.") with
"Do not use this feature with a non-static local variable." or maybe "It
is not supported to use this feature with a
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 02:08:16PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
> >>My intent here is to break this clearly into two @subsubheadings:
> >>'Assembler names for data' and 'Assembler names for functions'. Since
> >>data is the first section, I removed the word 'function' here.
> >I missed that, sorry.
(Resending due to email glitch)
Thanks again for your comments.
On 8/18/2015 2:23 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:55:48PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
On systems where an underscore is normally prepended to the name
of a C
-function or variable, this feature allows
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:55:48PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
> >> On systems where an underscore is normally prepended to the name of a C
> >>-function or variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
> >>+variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
> >> linker that d
Thank you for the review and comments.
On 8/17/2015 3:41 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:33:40PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
On systems where an underscore is normally prepended to the name of a C
-function or variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
There isn't any description of using asm like this in the current Asm
Labels docs.
And there shouldn't be. It's a hack.
Ok, good. After experimenting with this, I wasn't looking forward to
trying to describe what did and didn't work.
dw
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:33:40PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
> On systems where an underscore is normally prepended to the name of a C
> -function or variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
> +variable, this feature allows you to define names for the
> linker that do not star
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:33:40PM -0700, David Wohlferd wrote:
> As a followup to my update to the inline asm docs, I'm cleaning up the
> docs for 'Asm Labels.' The changes I want to make are pretty
> straight-forward (attached; comments welcome). But then I came across
> this line of code (f
As a followup to my update to the inline asm docs, I'm cleaning up the
docs for 'Asm Labels.' The changes I want to make are pretty
straight-forward (attached; comments welcome). But then I came across
this line of code (from
https://github.com/rschmukler/cs537-p5/blob/master/xv6/proc.h#L38):
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