On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 07:49 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Ian Campbell wrote:

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The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro
definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know
when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I
think we need to avoid using it. There are no other uses in mainline or
-mm. Old gas appears to just ignore it so you get "too many arguments"
type errors.
  

OK, seems reasonable.  Eric Biederman solved this by having NOTE/ENDNOTE 
(or something like that) in his "bzImage with ELF header" patch, but I 
don't remember it being used in any way which is incompatible with using 
a CPP macro.

I can't find that patch, does NOTE/ENDNOTE just do the push/pop .note
section?

That would solve the problem with the first argument of the macro being
a string but the final argument could still be for .asciz note contents.

Ian.