On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:19:55AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > No, not any more. The file and line info is out of line, in a separate > > section, indexed by the ud2a's eip. > > That's irrelevant - the point is, we need to do the ud2 by hand, since we > need to control the code generation in order to associate the ud2 with the > proper file/linenr. > > > The main problem with __builtin_trap is that there's no certain way to > > get the actual ud2a eip (ie, paste an asm label onto it). > > Right. Which is why we need to do it as an inline asm.
Who said that we need to populate that section from asm? Define a static variable in that section inside a block; identifier is not a problem, obviously. I'm not saying that it's not revolting, but it's not impossible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
