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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.11 for 2.6.17
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Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> I will declare the pointers around the jmp instruction directly in assembly : I
> wouldn't want gcc to put some other code there by mistake.
>
> I will use the "name" variable, as it is already there.
>   

Probably better not to.  If you use the fake extern, gcc won't be 
tempted to generate any code to satisfy the reference in the asm param line.

    J
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