From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 17:02:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08983 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08825 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA13972; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809180001.RAA13972@austin.polstra.com> To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: Correct names for C globals in kernel In-Reply-To: <199809171933.VAA29946@yacht.domestic.de> References: <199809171933.VAA29946@yacht.domestic.de> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:01:19 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199809171933.VAA29946@yacht.domestic.de>, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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: [600 line patch] Gee thanks, but this is totally unnecessary. See "src/sys/i386/include/asnames.h". -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message