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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-10-13 10:46:48 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-10-13 10:46:48 +0100
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tree30f4c0784bfddb57332cdc0678bd06d1e77fa185 /include/uapi/linux/const.h
parent08cce05c5a91f5017f4edc9866cf026908c73f9f (diff)
UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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+/* const.h: Macros for dealing with constants. */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_CONST_H
+#define _LINUX_CONST_H
+
+/* Some constant macros are used in both assembler and
+ * C code. Therefore we cannot annotate them always with
+ * 'UL' and other type specifiers unilaterally. We
+ * use the following macros to deal with this.
+ *
+ * Similarly, _AT() will cast an expression with a type in C, but
+ * leave it unchanged in asm.
+ */
+
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
+#define _AC(X,Y) X
+#define _AT(T,X) X
+#else
+#define __AC(X,Y) (X##Y)
+#define _AC(X,Y) __AC(X,Y)
+#define _AT(T,X) ((T)(X))
+#endif
+
+#endif /* !(_LINUX_CONST_H) */