Re: [PATCH 1/4] dynamic_debug: consolidate repetitive struct_ddebug descriptor definitions

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:13:16 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:28:41 -0400
> > > Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Replace the repetitive struct _ddebug descriptor definitions with
> > > > a new DECLARE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_META_DATA(name, fmt) macro.
> > > > +#define DECLARE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA(name, fmt)		\
> > > > +	static struct _ddebug __used __aligned(8)		\
> > > > +	__attribute__((section("__verbose"))) name = {		\
> > > > +		.modname = KBUILD_MODNAME,			\
> > > > +		.function = __func__,				\
> > > > +		.filename = __FILE__,				\
> > > > +		.format = (fmt),				\
> > > > +		.lineno = __LINE__,				\
> > > > +		.flags =  _DPRINTK_FLAGS_DEFAULT,		\
> > > > +		.enabled = false,				\
> > > > +	}
> > > <anal>That macro implements a definition, not a declaration</anal>
> > Andrew, that's not quite true
> It's precisely true.

Not according to the c99 standard section 6.7

cheers, Joe

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