Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 16:09:50 +0200 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: assyms.s Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10607040709h3625059ck616eded8ce38499f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2f3a439f0607040654h1983febbhfbceb974e366e855@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f3a439f0607040654h1983febbhfbceb974e366e855@mail.gmail.com>
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2006/7/4, Aditya Godbole <aag.lists@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I was going through the machine dependant code and found that > assembler symbols are created using a script that parses symbol names > taken from an object file. Why is it done this way? Are there any > advantages of doing this? assym.s just keeps track of some 'offsets' (often inside data structures) to be used in .s codes. It's preliminary generated from $arch/$arch/genassym.c. Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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