On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 05:42:58PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <31FDFD34-5E05-40BE-A3FE-7703CDDABEFA@3am-software.com>,
> Matt Thomas  <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Jun 2, 2007, at 4:31 AM, David Laight wrote:
> >
> >> I've been wondering if there is an easy way to dynamically create
> >> .c files for the kernel build?
> >>
> >> In particular compat/svr4/svr4_stream.c can be created from
> >> compat/svr4_32/svr4_32_stream.c with a 'simple' sed command, and it
> >> seems rather a shame to have to keep two 2000 line files in sync.
> >>
> >> The makefile rule would be easy, but where would it be added ?
> >
> >Do the same trick that exec_elf{32,64} does and make the cpp do the  
> >work.
> 
> That is even better. The only disadvantage is that the files are less
> readable.

I've done something even better.
svr4_32/svr4_32_stream.c now just includes svr4/svr4_stream.c, the latter
contains a few defines at the top and extra macro calls where the _32
code needed them.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk