Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:22:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correct names for C globals in kernel Message-ID: <199809191922.MAA01188@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:36:12 %2B0800." <199809191836.CAA14684@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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You live! > Also, one could use the -munderscores flag for gcc on the kernel and skip > asnames.h altogether until it's elf-only (and then convert the symbols and > drop the compile flag). > > Yes, you can have gcc's underscore prefixing is independent of the binary > format. You can have -mno-underscores with a.out or -munderscores with elf > if you wish. If we're going to transition to elf as default for the 3.0 > kernel, we could convert the source now, and add -mno-underscores to the > a.out kernel cc flags. We're about a week away from being ready to do this. If it's considered desirable to make the switch, then we can have the third-stage bootloader loading ELF kernels early next week. We'll need some help with other items (particularly LKM conversions) at that point. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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