From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MACHINE_START fix
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:54:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051029085447.GB32513@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051029054301.GZ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:43:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> unreferenced static variables can be killed by cc(1), so when
> we want them to survive (we collect these suckers in array in special
> section), we'd better not make them static.
Except this causes sparse to complain, which is why I made it static
last night. Patch nacked.
What I did miss was making it __attribute_used__ which would be the
correct answer.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 5:43 [PATCH] MACHINE_START fix Al Viro
2005-10-29 8:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-29 8:54 ` Russell King [this message]
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