Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> (hermes.c)
>  static int __init init_hermes(void)
>  {
>          return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static void __exit exit_hermes(void)
>  {
>  }
> 
>  module_init(init_hermes);
>  module_exit(exit_hermes);
> 
>  That's it.  As far as I can tell, gcc 4.0 semi-correctly determined they were both
>  static functions with no side effect, threw them away, and then the module_init
>  and module_exit threw undefined symbols for them.
> 
>  My totally incorrect workaround was to stick a printk(KERN_DEBUG) in the body
>  of the 3 trimmed functions so they had side effects.
> 
>  Anybody got a *better* solution?

uh, maybe

static int __init init_hermes(void)
{
	asm("");
	return 0;
}

then raise a gcc bug report?