Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 -- powerpc link failure

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:13:21 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > Ok, this problem seems to still persist in 2.6.23-rc8-mm2.  It seems we 
> > have three options from here:
> > 1) update the compiler support list to exclude these compilers, or
> > 2) back this change out, or
> > 3) switch to the version not using __weak.
> > The latter seems to be the least intrusive change.  As no-one closer to 
> > the problem is stepping up to make the decision I will propose we go 
> > with the third option here.
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> if you agree with Andy that we should support compilers that don't work 
> with __weak, please drop i386-and-x86_64-randomize-brk.patch and replace 
> it with the one below instead (this has been already posted at 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/113). Thanks.
> 

We have quite a few instances of __weak in there.  What is special about
this one?

> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> 
> i386 and x86_64: randomize brk()

That's a better patch anyway.  We often use __weak because people
can't be bothered doing all that editing.