2 * Linker table helper macros.
3 * NetWatch system management mode administration console
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38 /* Linker tables are a beautiful, evil piece of magic.
41 * - For each table, define start and end pointers as zero-length arrays.
42 * - Define however many data values as constants of the appropriate type
43 * - Put each in its own section. For example, 'start' is in section
44 * .table.foo; the data elemnts are in section .table.foo.1 (or other values
45 * for explicit ordering); and 'end' is in .table.foo.END.
46 * - Merge the sections together with the following linker script entry:
49 * This has the effect that the start symbol points to the first value in the
50 * table, and the end symbol points to the last. The number of values is
51 * simply (table_foo_end - table_foo_start).
53 * And everything Just Works. Etherboot and the Linux kernel both use this
54 * for identifying linked-in modules; they have a somewhat more elaborate
55 * macro infastructure, but at the moment there are only two tables in
56 * NetWatch (network protocols and built-in drivers), so less is needed.
59 #define PROTOCOL(x) void (* const x##_ptr)(void) \
60 __attribute__((section(".table.protocols.1"))) = x
64 #define TABLE(typ, name) \
65 typ name##_table[0] __attribute__((section(".table." #name ))); \
66 typ name##_table_end[0] __attribute__((section(".table." #name ".END")));
68 #define TABLE_LENGTH(name) (name##_table_end - name##_table)
70 #endif /* __TABLES_H */