[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Functions added to extern for stand alone programs

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <e68c55e80705231347w76d86bf8o1a1f6001e93f3f72@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> it could't really be that simple, could it? I bet my sintax is wrong,

Maybe.

> and I still do not compleatly understand how the compiler intreprets
> "weak" and "set". But I can see how this would work.

I never used this assembler trickery before myself. So far, I only
played with the C variant of it. Like that:

-> cat foo.c
#include <stdio.h>

int func(int, int);

int main (void)
{
        int i = func (2, 7);

        printf ("i = %d\n", i);

        return 0;
}
-> cat func.c
#include <stdio.h>

int __func (int a, int b)
{
        printf ("Default func called: %d + %d\n", a, b);

        return (a + b);
}

int func(int a, int b) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("__func")));
-> cat private.c 
#include <stdio.h>

int func (int a, int b)
{
        printf ("Private func called: %d * %d\n", a, b);

        return (a * b);
}
-> gcc -c *.c
-> gcc -o foo foo.o func.o
-> ./foo
Default func called: 2 + 7
i = 9
-> gcc -o bar foo.o func.o private.o
-> ./bar
Private func called: 2 * 7
i = 14



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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