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[v4,02/40] ARM: assembler.h: Add string declaration macro

Message ID 1310048867-14172-3-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org
State Accepted
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Dave Martin July 7, 2011, 2:27 p.m. UTC 
Declaring strings in assembler source involves a certain amount of
tedious boilerplate code in order to annotate the resulting symbol
correctly.

Encapsulating this boilerplate in a macro should help to avoid some
duplication and the occasional mistake.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
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 arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
index 65c3f24..29035e8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -293,4 +293,13 @@ 
 	.macro	ldrusr, reg, ptr, inc, cond=al, rept=1, abort=9001f
 	usracc	ldr, \reg, \ptr, \inc, \cond, \rept, \abort
 	.endm
+
+/* Utility macro for declaring string literals */
+	.macro	string name:req, string
+	.type \name , #object
+\name:
+	.asciz "\string"
+	.size \name , . - \name
+	.endm
+
 #endif /* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H__ */