WEAK_REFERENCE?

[Andreas Tobler]

On 11.11.13 08:47, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:16:08PM +0100, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> anyone interested in this patch to remove the WEAK_ALIAS and introduce
>> the WEAK_REFERENCE?
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~andreast/weak_ref.amd64.diff
>>
>> I have this running since months on amd64 and I have no issues with.
>>
>> I remember having had a communication with bde@ that he is in favour in
>> doing that but I lacked the time to complete.
>> A similar thing is pending for i386 and sparc64. The ppc stuff is
>> already committed since a longer time.
>>
>> If no one is interested, I'm happy to clean up my tree and skip this.
> 
> I am not sure why do you include the changes to END() in the same patch.
> Did you looked over the all END() usages on amd64, is it always paired
> with ENTRY() ?  The CNAME() for ELF is the pedantism anyway.
> 
> Other than the somewhat questionable inclusion of the END() change, which
> should be committed separately, if ever, I think the change is fine.

Am I correct, without this line in sys/amd64/include/asm.h?

#define END(name)       .size CNAME(name), . - CNAME(name)

If so, I just need a usable dot.emacs file to match the formatting
expectations from bde. Sounds easy, but I didn't succeed so far.

Thank you for the feedback!

Andreas