can i replace a .S file with .c file.

Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar chambilkethakur at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 08:39:18 EST 2013


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:34 PM, SaNtosh kuLkarni <
santosh.yesoptus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi is it possible that the assembly code .S file in linux kernel be
> replaced by a .C file.
>
> This seems like a very general question. Which file do you want to replace
and why?
You should understand that any *.S file contains arch specific code, which
is written in assembly for optimization/efficiency reasons. Replacing it
with an equivalent C code may undermine those goals.

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Anuz
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