Re: [PATCH] Workaround for gcc 2.96 (undefined references)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Andrew:
> 
> As of 2.6.15-rc1-git4, gcc 2.96 complains about undefined references 
> unless this patch (as607) is applied.  Apparently the old compiler isn't 
> so good at avoiding linker references to unused code.
> 

Strange.  Do you know which change caused this to happen?  I'm a bit
worried that we might have done something silly to offend the compiler -
would like to understand the problem a little better.

Can you share the .config?

> 
> Index: usb-2.6/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c
> +++ usb-2.6/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2101,6 +2101,13 @@ int __pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pg
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +#else
> +
> +/* Workaround for gcc 2.96 */
> +int __pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
>  #endif /* __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED */
>  
>  #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
> @@ -2129,6 +2136,13 @@ int __pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pu
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +#else
> +
> +/* Workaround for gcc 2.96 */
> +int __pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
>  #endif /* __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED */
>  
>  int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
> 
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