what is the meaning of ENTRY?
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@airs.com
Thu Sep 22 13:14:00 GMT 2005
xiao feng <lovers.ai@gmail.com> writes:
> I am reading arm linux kernel and find some codes as follows in head-armv.s:
>
> .section ".text.init",#alloc,#execinstr
> .type stext, #function
> ENTRY(stext)
>
> I have read the gas manual,but didn't find the explanation of "ENTRY",
> is it a directive of gas? Is "stext" a label and what is its value?
ENTRY is a preprocessor macro. I don't see a head-armv.s file in my
Linux sources, but I see ENTRY defined in include/linux/linkage.h.
Ian
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