[RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: assembler: Add uniform assembler framework

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:49:42AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> Are you still interested in this series?
> 
> I have a workaround for the above now, but it's not pretty -- I seem to
> have opened a can of worms here.
> 
> 
> We would need something like
> 
> #define EXTENDED_ASM(stuff) asm ( ".include \"macros.inc\"\n\t" stuff )
> #define EXTENDED_VASM(stuff) asm volatile ( ".include \"macros.inc\"\n\t" stuff )
> 
> ...where macros.inc includes some logic to protect against multiple
> inclusion.
> 
> This would avoid problems caused by reordering done by the compiler.
> 
> I think this can work, but it may be a step too far...

I'm fairly tempted to say: "if it ain't broke, don't fix".  AFAIK no one
has reported problems here, so lets not hastily try to fix something that
will error out if it does go wrong.