>>> On 24.03.16 at 15:12, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote: > On 24/03/16 14:08, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Independently - is the asm() indeed unconditionally necessary? > > Yes. Otherwise alternative blocks in C fail to compile. They > __stringify() the feature name, which used to turn into a number (when > the feature was a define), but stay as a string identifier because of > the new enum. > >> If so, how much clutter to symbol tables does it introduce? I notice >> that public/errno.h causes some unnecessary bloat in this regard >> too. Should we perhaps add --strip-local-absolute to the assembler >> options (for both .c and .S files)? > > I was wondering if there was anything we could do to fix the errno > clutter. That sounds like a good plan.
Okay - luckily this exists in gas 2.16 already, so we can add it unconditionally. I'll prepare a patch... Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
