* Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> >>> On 26.09.12 at 10:28, Tao Guo <glorious...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > gas in binutils(2.16.91) could not parse parentheses within macro
> > parameters unless fully parenthesized, and this is a workaround to
> > make old gas work without generating below errors:
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:387: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:389: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:390: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:391: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:392: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:393: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:394: Error: too many positional arguments
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <glorious...@gmail.com>
>
> This looks okay now to me, but I'm somewhat reluctant to
> formally ack it given that we know how broken those particular
> gas versions are.
Well, assuming Tao Guo test-booted a kernel build with this old
GAS version, we could apply this patch on a best-effort basis -
the changes don't look particularly ugly. If other, unacceptable
uglies or fragilities come up then we might balk.
Agreed?
Thanks,
Ingo
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