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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MACHINE_START fix
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:52:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jefyqkogbf.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051029054301.GZ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:43:01 +0100")

Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes:

> 	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.

What about __attribute__used__?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29  8:52 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2005-10-29  8:54 ` Russell King

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