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Subject: Re: What are the codes that contain the marcos that are created
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On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, françai s wrote:

> It has come to my attention the following:
>
> "The minority of  FreeBSD developers either create a macro expands to
> something like ".word <foo> “ or sometimes the .word <foo> is just hard
> coded inline when there’s only going to be one of them, sometimes expose
> them both in assembly and in C code, in which case what we do varies a bit
> to accommodate the different language’s syntax. It is rare, but has
> happened, that we only expose it to C code.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/57961/
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