Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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> In assembly code and in gcc inline assembly, we need .long to express a "c long"
> type on i386 and a .quad to express the same on x86_64. Use macros similar to
> powerpc "PPC_LONG" to express those. Name chosen: ASM_LONG. (didn't feel like
> X86_LONG was required)

In the x86 queue I already have a patch which adds <asm/asm.h> for this; 
I used the namespace _ASM_* and the name _ASM_PTR since in Linux it is 
what holds a pointer.

	-hpa

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