Changes to PPC Linux required for GCC 3.1

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 6 14:38:23 EST 2001


On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:59:14PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
> Tom Rini wrote:
>
> >
> >I think the reason this wasn't applied is that Paul said something about
> >thiws being horriyingly ugly.  Corey, can you post a patch that changes
> >RELOC(x) into a function and nothing else? :)
>
> My original patch has the function.

Your patch had other fixes too tho.

> I prefer the macro, it may be a
> little uglier but it removes a dependency between the include file and
> the source.

Er, say what?  The macro is in the include file now...

> It needs to be commented though, the reason for it's
> wierdness is not really clear.

Well, that is somewhat true.  But the early boot stuffs are somewhat
mysterious from time to time anyways :)

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