On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:23:14PM +0000, Chris Brandt wrote:

On Thursday, November 02, 2017 1, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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So, as far as ARM assembly in the Linux kernel goes, all constants

must

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be preceded by # whether or not binutils requires it - no exceptions.
Please always test assembly changes with a binutils version that is

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gratuitously broken!

Somewhat ironic since Nicolas works for Linaro.

I'm not involved with the toolchain people though, other than using
their output.

That was the irony!

As in...
Even if you built the code, you would have probably used a Linaro 
toolchain and it would have worked like on my system.

  Forget it.  (mailing lists are so dry when it comes to humor)

It's not mailing lists, it's email.  Email lacks the facial expressions,
and the voice inflections and tone necessary to convey this extra
"metadata".  It's a well known problem.  Email is dry and devoid of the
subtle hints that humans need to effectively communicate.  Communication
is *not* just about the words on a page.

It's why we have smilies and emojis, as an attempt to fill that void, but
I bet most of us (me included) don't use them enough.

	http://www.youmeworks.com/no_honking.html

The 44% figure in that URL, if correct, is shocking.  It probably means
that approaching half of all emails on this list are misconstrued by
the reader(s) of them!

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