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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> 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. :)

  i can submit a patch for that unless someone is all over that
already.  i assume the fix would simply involve assigning reset.o to
COBJS (rather than SOBS) in the relevant Makefiles, yes?

rday

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