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From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 	#include <asm/if.h>
> 
> in the places which are known to use pushfl/popfl is fragile.  Because
> someone could later do something odd which results in the generation of an
> unmassaged pushfl/popfl.
> 
> You need a magic bullet.  Which is why I suggest including if.h via the build
> system - making it truly global.
> 
> __ASSEMBLY__ and __KERNEL__ are provided via the build system as well, and
> are in scope during that first inclusion.  So it _should_ work....

Let me just mention "gcc -include <file>". I suppose that's what you were 
saying, anyway.

--Kai

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