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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 06:50:23 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de
Subject: Re: Correct names for C globals in kernel
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>this patch is interesting if it is planned to convert the kernel
>itself to ELF. With these patches, the kernel will link in an ELF
>world.

John Polstra converted it a year or so ago.  Names are already
converted in <machine/asnames.h>.  I think we plan to remove the
extra underscores in the sources after fully switching to elf.

>Under /usr/src/sys there is an assembler macro called CNAME that
>adds an optional underscore to global symbols when needed. However,
>that macro is rarely used. The following patch remedies that:

CNAME is ugly.

Bruce

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