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From: Joo Hong <jhong@canoga.com>
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Subject: Assembly programming.
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:36:00 -0700
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     Hi,
     
     Could anybody please explains the following inline assembly code, 
     Thanks.
     
     (1)
     #define MAKE_SET(set, sym) \
        __asm__(".section .set." #set ",\"aw\""); \
        __asm__(".long" #sym); \
        __asm__(".previous");
     
     
     (2)
     #define MAKE_SET(set, sym, type) \
        static void const * const __set_##set##_sym_##sym = &sym; \
        asm(".stabs \"_" #set "\", " #type ", 0, 0, _" #sym)

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