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authorDave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>2011-06-23 17:10:05 +0100
committerHuang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>2012-04-06 13:56:49 +0800
commitca1f9c22ee36eff340febccc79cb9b6ef8c7fc4b (patch)
tree6ad727ee3dc8704af784fbab9c9a90d0a55e09b0
parent08acf340e4c529c0f08f2ed0cd5f2aa4c5997173 (diff)
ARM: assembler.h: Add string declaration macro
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> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
index d42a18b367cd..fed335efda25 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -298,4 +298,13 @@
.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__ */