On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:28:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add
> > >
> > > obj-y += parser.o
> >
> > This I didn't find.
> >
> > Is it really the intention to silently omit objects that are not
> > referenced or could this be changed?
>
> In some cases, yes, it it desirable. For example, lib/extable.c provides a
> default implementation of an exception table sorter but if the architecture
> defies its own, the linker will skip the default version in lib/.
>
> At least, that's what the thinking was a few years ago. But it's such a
> special-case that we can probably forget about it and just drive the build
> and linkage with config now.
>...
lib/extable.c already uses two ARCH_HAS_* defines, simply because the
linker couldn't help if only one of two functions in a file were needed.
cu
Adrian
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