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From: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:42:08 +0530
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] arm: add %function attribute to assembly
 functions
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On Friday 17 February 2012 10:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 February 2012 08:57:31 Aneesh V wrote:
>> This is done using the following directive preceding
>> each function definition:
>>
>> .type<func-name>, %function
>>
>> This marks the symbol as a function in the object
>> header which in turn helps the linker in some cases.
>>
>> In particular this was found needed for resolving ARM/Thumb
>> calls correctly in a build with Thumb interworking enabled.
>
> ideally arm would use the new linkage.h header and then these would change to
> doing what Linux does:
> ENTRY(foo)
> 	<asm>
> ENDPROC(foo)

Thanks for the info. So, what do you suggest? Fix only the problematic
function and leave the rest to be converted to the above form later?

br,
Aneesh