[PATCH v6 5/5] rust: add arch_static_branch

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Sat Aug 10 14:57:20 PDT 2024


On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 11:44:13PM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 11:04 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 05:23:41PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> >
> > > +/// Wrapper around `asm!` that uses at&t syntax on x86.
> > > +// Uses a semicolon to avoid parsing ambiguities, even though this does not match native `asm!`
> > > +// syntax.
> > > +#[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
> > > +#[macro_export]
> > > +macro_rules! asm {
> > > +    ($($asm:expr),* ; $($rest:tt)*) => {
> > > +        ::core::arch::asm!( $($asm)*, options(att_syntax), $($rest)* )
> > > +    };
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +/// Wrapper around `asm!` that uses at&t syntax on x86.
> >
> > ^ the above line seems out of place given the 'not' below.
> 
> Comments with three slashes are what gets rendered in the html version
> of the docs [1]. This way, the rendered docs will say that the `asm!`
> macro is a wrapper around the built-in `asm!` that uses at&t syntax on
> x86 regardless of which platform you build the docs on.
> 

Urgh, that's not half-way confusing. Also, whoever wants to read HTML
when you already have the code open in your text-editor?



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