On Sunday 13 January 2008 21:16, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:53:49PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 13 January 2008 13:19, Robert Millan wrote: > > > This is becoming a nightmare. I think it's better if we just exclude > > > symbols starting with __ from our checks. They aren't really meant for > > > us to mess with. > > > > My original suggestion was that we could extract (required) symbols from > > libgcc, and export them from the kernel. I think this can be automated. > > Yes, but what's the point? Doesn't libgcc already provide those symbols?
It does, but our kernel doesn't. > The problem seems to be only with our checker scripts, not with linking > itself. > > Unless I missed something of course.. From my point of view, ignoring all symbols starting with __ is a hack. I prefer to resolve symbols in the Right Way. Okuji