Re: __FILE__ gets expanded to absolute pathname

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 08:44, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Sometime ago I noticed that __FILE__ gets expanded into
> *absolute* pathname if one builds kernel in separate object directory.
>
> I thought a bit about it but failed to arrive at any sensible
> solution.
>
> Any thoughs?

Sounds to me like in-tree users of __FILE__ should be audited. Those using 
them for print statements about how unhappy they are should probably be 
revised to "drivername: <message>"..

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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