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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unused
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 02:46:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504004636.GU3531@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705031734520.21416@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:35:57PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>...
> There was a mistake in the current implementation of __attribute_used__
> whereas it would be defined to be __attribute__((used)) incorrectly for
> gcc 3.3 and later.  The unit-at-a-time compilation scheme was only
> introduced in gcc 3.4 and later versions as specified in 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.4/changes.html.
>...

AFAIR, Suse shipped a release of their distribution with a gcc 3.3 
containing a backported unit-at-a-time.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04  0:35 [patch] compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unused David Rientjes
2007-05-04  0:46 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-05-04  1:21   ` David Rientjes

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