On 05/25/18 13:36, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> You need the extern inline in the .h file and the out-of-line .S file > both. > > But the out-of-line .S file looks like: > > ... > 10 ENTRY(native_save_fl) > > 11 pushf > > 12 pop %_ASM_AX > > 13 ret > > 14 ENDPROC(native_save_fl) > > 15 EXPORT_SYMBOL(native_save_fl) > ... > > I don't see how you can specify to the linker from assembly source that > this function should be treated as `extern inline`? >
"extern inline" is a C directive. In the header file you should provide the inlinable implementation (which is already there.) It means that "if you don't want to inline this there is an external implementation available." > I assume you don't literally mean the C keywords `extern inline` but > whatever the equivalent incantation is needed in terms of assembler > directives (which I also don't know). > > I'm beginning to think that what you'd like to see cannot be expressed (at > least via `extern inline`). >
