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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:53:36 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] warning: `__attribute_used__' redefined
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Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a small fix for linux 2.6.3-rc2 to get rid of the annoying warnings
>  while non-kernel programs ...
> 
>  /usr/include/linux/compiler-gcc2.h:15: warning: `__attribute_used__' redefined
>  /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:170: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

It is more likely that we need to extend the __KERNEL__ coverage somewhere.

Can you please do a `gcc -H' of that application and show us the inclusion
route by which it is hitting compiler.h?