[U-Boot] what does it mean when "SOBJS" refers to a C source file?

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Robert,

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:32:11 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day"
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> 
>   perusing the Makefiles, pretty straightforward but, on occasion, i
> run into something like this (from
> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/Makefile):
> 
> ... snip ...
> SOBJS   := reset.o
> 
> COBJS   := timer.o
> COBJS   += utils.o
> ... snip ...
> 
>   the thing is, all of the above are .c files, including reset.c.  is
> there something deliberate about using SOBJS to refer to an object
> file whose source file isn't actually assembler?  just curious.
> 
> rday

It means commit d417d1db5f9092d125ddea882ced77eaa5f3d236 was not
reviewed thoroughly enough. :)

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.