From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:00:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503111800.56423.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0503101516190.2530@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Friday 11 March 2005 00:21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch is still wrong.
>
> Can't we just fix it by havign an alias for both names?
No, because the patch is wrong. It should export both symbols in the second
case.
> It seems stupid to
> jump through hoops and worry about compiler versions, when afaik we could
> just do something like
>
> extern xxxx(...) __attribute__((alias("yyyy")));
>
> instead. Exact details left to the reader who knows more about all the
> magic gcc/linker things..
>
> Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-11 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-10 2:16 Jeff Dike
2005-03-10 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-10 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-11 17:00 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2005-03-11 18:47 ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 17:01 ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2005-03-11 18:48 ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 16:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-11 17:00 ` [uml-devel] " stian
2005-03-11 23:53 ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 23:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-12 3:45 ` Jeff Dike
2005-03-11 19:35 ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
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