Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow space before [ in the case of inlineasm constraints

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 09:32:28 EST


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:00:12AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:13 +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > This allows the customary syntax for declaring named arguments,
> > such as:
> >
> > asm ("mov %[out],%[in]" : [out] "=r" (x) : [in] "r" (y));
>
> Andy:
>
> Maybe it'd be better to have a checkpatch pass that does
> something similar to the c comment removal for asm blocks.
>
> Maybe keyed on "\basm(\s+volatile){0,1}\s*" and strip
> everything in the () block that follows it.

Yeah am starting to think that whatever is in there is a different
world.

-apw
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