Re: (OT) Request for advice: asm offsets

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Never mind. I should have used google first.

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 16:26 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> I would appreciate advice and/or suggestions about a Coyotos issue.
> 
> In Coyotos, there is a small list of structures defined in C that are
> accessed from assembly level. We need to maintain a header file of field
> offsets for these structures.
> 
> This is a serious pain in the ass to maintain, and it was a common
> source of errors in EROS. Eventually, I decided to use an awk script
> that generated both the C header and the assembler offset files from a
> definition file. Some other things were generated from this as well.
> This approach worked, but it isn't doxygen friendly.
> 
> I definitely want to avoid solutions that rely on being able to compile
> a .o successfully.
> 
> The remaining alternative is to write a tool that can parse the C
> headers directly and emit the asm offsets.
> 
> Before I go write one, does anyone know if such a tool already exists?
> 
> 
> shap
> 
> 
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