Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:59:07 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Hugang <hugang@soulinfo.com>, ncunningham@clear.net.nz,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.
Message-ID: <20040119235907.GA837@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi!

> > You need to check resulting assembly for stack accesses. So yes, you
> > can compile it from .c file, _but you have to read it_.
> 
> Hrm... That's awful and terribly fragile. You should either write
> it entirely in assembly (thus readable & commented) or write it in

Take a look before commenting.

Long time ago I took .c version, compiled it into assembly,
handcleaned (etc) and now its used.

But if someone wants to do ppc, taking .c version, compiling it into
assembly, then checking/fixing is probably easiest way...

								Pavel
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