linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: Properly placing noinline keyword.

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Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:31:23 +0100
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Properly placing noinline keyword.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:10:07PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>On 10/17/08, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:17:33PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>>  >On 10/17/08, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
>>  >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:05:32PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
>>  >>  > Here, noinline keyword should be placed between storage class and type.
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> Why?
>>  >Because, scripts/checkpatch.pl warned with following warning:
>>  >     ERROR: inline keyword should sit between storage class and type
>>
>>
>> Well, 'noinline' is different from 'inline'.
>>
>>  'noinline' is defined as:
>>
>>  #define  noinline                       __attribute__((noinline))
>>
>>  in include/linux/compiler-gcc.h. But 'inline' is a _keyword_ defined
>>  by C standard. If checkpatch.pl complains about 'noinline', you should
>>  fix checkpatch.pl. :)
>Thanks, for explanation. But isn't it nice to place it between storage
>class and type ?

I don't think so, I don't know why checkpatch.pl prefers that style.
I think probably only because that is more readable?

Anyway, gcc attribute is another different thing.

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