Re: [BUG] sparse warning EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d symbol non-static

[Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>]

> Well, sparse is clearly "right", for all it cares it might very well be
> static, but it seems this is necessary for something in the kernel and
> we clearly can't forward-declare it in a header file. Perhaps we can add
> some annotation to say
> "__attribute__((yes_I_know_but_really_dont_want_this_to_be_static))" to
> suppress this warning? This is getting annoying to me as well :-)

We could do something like

typeof(foo); 

in the macro. Not sure if that would make sparse happy.

Also this is really working around a problem upto gcc 4.8. that was fixed
in gcc 4.9 (adding numerical postfixes to all symbols)  If it's ok to let LTO only support 4.9+ the patches could be reverted.

-Andi