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Message-ID: <481B8376.4050206@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 14:11:18 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bunk@...nel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>   
>> Is it always about inlining? If so, can't we add a __noinline__ to the 
>> declaration of __weak?
>>     
>
> We tried that and it was still getting inlined.

That's a pity.  I've worked around this bug with noinline before.

    J
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