linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add __global tag where needed.

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Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:30:47 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add __global tag where needed.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:26:52PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> This patch just adds the __global tag to functions and variables which
> are used from outside the directory in which they're provided, to
> prevent -fwhole-program from eating them.
> 
> If we just define __global as a dummy for now, then there's no harm in
> applying this patch as-is -- but it's largely pointless without the
> Makefile changes.
>...

Applying this doesn't seem to make much sense until it's clear whether a
"build everything except for assembler files at once" approach (that 
needs less globals) or your current "compile only multi-obj at once" 
approach (that requires more globals).

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

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