[Click] linux patch question

[Michael Neufeld]

Hi-
As I recall the "::" gets misinterpreted by C++ as an explicit scope 
specification, e.g. "Class::StaticMethod()", causing compiler errors.

-Mike

Beyers Cronje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm busy creating a 2.4.31 click patch and was wondering if anyone
> could tell me why some of the "asm volatile" syntext are changed from
> ' :: ' to ' : : '
> 
> An example:
> -	asm volatile ("movw %0, %%ds" :: "r" ((u16)__KERNEL_DS));
> +	asm volatile ("movw %0, %%ds" : : "r" ((u16)__KERNEL_DS));
> 
> Is this needed because of some gcc c/c++ compiler problem ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Beyers
> 
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