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authorRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>2007-02-10 01:46:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-11 10:51:35 -0800
commit82ddcb040570411fc2d421d96b3e69711c670328 (patch)
treefb344f5cf69968cef3739d437de97a86817c2219 /include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
parente3e8a75d2acfc61ebf25524666a0a2c6abb0620c (diff)
[PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros
Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical (and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files. based on a page at robert love's blog: http://rlove.org/log/2005102601 extend the set of shortcut macros defined in compiler-gcc.h with the following: #define __packed __attribute__((packed)) #define __weak __attribute__((weak)) #define __naked __attribute__((naked)) #define __noreturn __attribute__((noreturn)) #define __pure __attribute__((pure)) #define __aligned(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) #define __printf(a,b) __attribute__((format(printf,a,b))) Once these are in place, it's up to subsystem maintainers to decide if they want to take advantage of them. there is already a strong precedent for using shortcuts like this in the source tree. The ones that might give people pause are "__aligned" and "__printf", but shortcuts for both of those are already in use, and in some ways very confusingly. note the two very different definitions for a macro named "ALIGNED": drivers/net/sgiseeq.c:#define ALIGNED(x) ((((unsigned long)(x)) + 0xf) & ~(0xf)) drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c:#define ALIGNED(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) also: include/acpi/platform/acgcc.h: #define ACPI_PRINTF_LIKE(c) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, c, c+1))) Given the precedent, then, it seems logical to at least standardize on a consistent set of these macros. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler-gcc.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler-gcc.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 6e1c44a935d..9008eabb9c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
#define __inline__ __inline__ __attribute__((always_inline))
#define __inline __inline __attribute__((always_inline))
#define __deprecated __attribute__((deprecated))
+#define __packed __attribute__((packed))
+#define __weak __attribute__((weak))
+#define __naked __attribute__((naked))
+#define __noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
+#define __pure __attribute__((pure))
+#define __aligned(x) __attribute__((aligned(x)))
+#define __printf(a,b) __attribute__((format(printf,a,b)))
#define noinline __attribute__((noinline))
#define __attribute_pure__ __attribute__((pure))
#define __attribute_const__ __attribute__((__const__))