Re: [PATCH 19/20] inflate: (arch) use proper linking

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:54:52PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> inflate: remove include of lib/inflate.c and use proper linking
> 
> - make free_mem_ptr vars nonstatic
> - make gunzip nonstatic
> - add gunzip prototype to new inflate.h
> - add per-arch Makefile bits
> - change inflate.c includes to inflate.h includes
> - change NO_INFLATE_MALLOC to CORE
> - compile core kernel version of inflate with -DCORE

We need to build inflate.c with -Dstatic= to disable static data, 
and text so that we get the correct binary layout for ARM PIC
decompressors.  This patch breaks that.

(Unfortunately there's no other way to get GCC to produce what we
require.)

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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