On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> static int __init init_hermes(void)
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
> static void __exit exit_hermes(void)
> {
> }
>
> module_init(init_hermes);
> module_exit(exit_hermes);
>
> That's it. As far as I can tell, gcc 4.0 semi-correctly determined they were
> both
> static functions with no side effect, threw them away, and then the
> module_init
> and module_exit threw undefined symbols for them.
As a module, we create a non-static alias for "init_hermes", called
"init_module", effectively making it non-static. GCC should not
eliminate it in this case. Similar with module_exit().
For non-modules, we have __attribute_used__.
Rusty.
--
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