On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:13:59 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> so here's the end result of my experiment to replace unnecessary
> code snippets with an invocation of the ARRAY_SIZE() macro from
> include/linux/kernel.h. i've attached the script that i ran on the
> entire tree, then (after adding al viro's connector patch), did:
>
> $ make allyesconfig # for the stress factor
> $ make
>
> to see what would happen.
>
> amazingly, the compile worked all the way down to:
>
> AS arch/i386/boot/bootsect.o
> LD arch/i386/boot/bootsect
> AS arch/i386/boot/setup.o
> LD arch/i386/boot/setup
> AS arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.o
> CC arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.o
> OBJCOPY arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> HOSTCC arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs
> arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c: In function 'sym_type':
> arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c:72: warning: implicit declaration of function 'ARRAY_SIZE'
That's a userspace program and shouldn't use kernel.h.
> /tmp/ccRTpFxM.o: In function `main':
> relocs.c:(.text+0xb13): undefined reference to `ARRAY_SIZE'
> relocs.c:(.text+0xddb): undefined reference to `ARRAY_SIZE'
> relocs.c:(.text+0xe10): undefined reference to `ARRAY_SIZE'
> relocs.c:(.text+0xe2b): undefined reference to `ARRAY_SIZE'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2
---
~Randy
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