assyms.s

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 4 14:09:52 UTC 2006


2006/7/4, Aditya Godbole <aag.lists at 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


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