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

Jiri Kosina
2007-09-27T22:17:35Z

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +extern void arch_randomize_brk(void);
> > #include "../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c"
> Is this sinful extern-decl-in-C acually needed?

Some time passed since I have written the patch, but I remember that this
was needed, otherwise under some circumstances the build failed, but I
don't remember details ... I will try to look at it more in a while.

But it definitely was needed to work with that horrible
include-huge-c-file-from-another-one.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs