From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:58:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:58:36 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:15064 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:58:28 -0400 Message-Id: <200106141657.MAA09198@mailhost.eng.mc.xerox.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: what's the purpose of SYMBOL_NAME() Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:57:33 -0400 From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm read Bovet's "Understand the Linux Kernel" and looked at the assembly routine setup_idt... I noticed the assembly has SYMBOL_NAME (its all over the place). This is define in include/linux/linkage.h to just: #define SYMBOL_NAME(X) X (this wasn't in Bovet's book). What's the purpose? marty mleisner@eng.mc.xerox.com Don't confuse education with schooling. Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra