On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 11:45:30AM +0200, David Marchand wrote: > From: Andre Muezerie <andre...@linux.microsoft.com> > > DPDK uses GCC attribute "used" through macro __rte_used to indicate > that a variable not referenced in the code should be assumed being > used and therefore not be optimized away. This technique is used to embed > information in the binaries, by having crafted information stored in > them. > > MSVC offers similar functionality, but it differs significantly: MSVC > requires a pragma to be used to send a command to the linker telling it > explicitly the name of the symbol that should be included (even if not > referenced). As a side-effect, variables called out to be included cannot > be static, otherwise their symbols are not "seen" by the linker. This > restriction requires some DPDK code to be refactored. > > To assimilate these requirements/restrictions, a new macro > RTE_PMD_EXPORT_SYMBOL is added in this patch to ensure these special > variables make it to the final binaries. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andre...@linux.microsoft.com> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > ---
Acked-by: Andre Muezerie <andre...@linux.microsoft.com>
