On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:23:37AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> Dear $ARCH Maintainers,
>
> This patch adds Elf32_Sym .st_info (STT_FUNC) and .st_size for hand-coded
> checksum and semaphore subroutines. I needed this info when writing a
> static analyzer for stack depth [grovel over ./vmlinux] on the um
> (UserModeLinux) $ARCH for i386. The changes work on i386. Other $ARCH
> are analogous but not tested. Other arch/x86/lib/*.S are not used by um
> currently. [Should analogous changes be made anyway?]
>
> Comments?
I do not know the assembly stuff in question,
but the code you add would be nicer if packed in a macro.
You may even use _GLOBAL and/or ENTRY for your purpose.
Sam
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