On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:43:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> unreferenced static variables can be killed by cc(1), so when
> we want them to survive (we collect these suckers in array in special
> section), we'd better not make them static.
Except this causes sparse to complain, which is why I made it static
last night. Patch nacked.
What I did miss was making it __attribute_used__ which would be the
correct answer.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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