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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:59:55 +0100
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: TUNABLE_INT question
Message-ID:  <20090218075955.GA66426@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200902171751.13962.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20090213183229.GA94272@freebsd.org> <200902170931.12983.jhb@freebsd.org> <20090217222142.GA94925@freebsd.org> <200902171751.13962.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 5:21:42 pm Roman Divacky wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:31:12AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Friday 13 February 2009 5:16:07 pm Roman Divacky wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:55:44PM -0500, Ryan Stone wrote:
> > > > > __FILE__ is a string so you can't concat that with anything to produce 
> an
> > > > > identifier.  In any case, the variable is static so there can't be any
> > > > > collision problems with other files.
> > > > 
> > > > I was talking about the SYSINIT parameter. thats a section in a .o
> > > > file, and I am getting collisions there...
> > > 
> > > Hmm, are you doing something like this:
> > > 
> > > #define FOO(string) \
> > > 	TUNABLE_INT(string ## ".bar", &bar); \
> > > 	TUNABLE_INT(string ## ".foo", &foo); \
> > > 
> > > FOO(baz)
> > > 
> > > That would collide as both of the TUNABLE_INT() invocations would have the 
> > > same __LINE__ (the line number of the 'FOO(baz)').
> > 
> > no.. it was just two tunables in two files that happened to end  up in the 
> same
> > line. fixed now
> 
> Hmmm, odd.  Those should be static and not matter.

the symbol itself is static, but the section ELF section created might collide.

anyway, this has been fixed and is not a problem anymore for me



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