Re: buffer cache

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:25:29 -0600, Bryan Henderson wrote:
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> >>I get an error saying Undefined reference, the functions are
> >>inline functions.
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> >Kernel stuff must be compiled with optimization due to this and ...
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> Are you sure?  I compile a filesystem driver module with no optimization
> all the time.  Without optimization, the functions that are supposed to be
> inline become out-of-line, but it still compiles.  On older versions of
> Linux, I did have to use -O because there were some "extern inline"
> functions, but not now.  This is a 2.4.20ish kernel; maybe there are extern
> inlines in newer kernel code?
> 
> But here, we're apparently talking about the link editor (ld) "undefined
> reference" error, which means it isn't a question of compiling kernel code
> at all - he's trying to create an executable.  That still wouldn't cause a
> problem with inline functions, but I suspect the problem is really with
> other (external) functions with similar names that the inline functions
> call.

... you are right. The error looks like he is trying to do something
wrong (binary instead of relocable object).

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>