[patch 04/11] Add INIT_ARRAY() to kernel.h

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Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 5:06 pm

Add initialization of an array, which needs brackets that would pollute kernel
code, to kernel.h. It is used to declare arguments passed as function parameters
such as:
text_poke(addr, INIT_ARRAY(unsigned char, 0xf0, len), len);

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/kernel.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/linux/kernel.h	2007-09-18 10:09:15.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/linux/kernel.h	2007-09-18 13:12:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -400,4 +400,6 @@ struct sysinfo {
 #define NUMA_BUILD 0
 #endif
 
+#define INIT_ARRAY(type, val, len) ((type [len]){ [0 ... (len)-1] = (val) })
+
 #endif

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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