linux-kernel - Re: [RHEL7.2 PATCH] lib/mpi: Teach the code inline 101

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Date:	Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:56:21 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RHEL7.2 PATCH] lib/mpi: Teach the code inline 101

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:18 AM,  <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> The broken extern inline usage resulted in gcc5 duplicating the
> functions causing link errors due to duplicate symbols.

Why isn't gcc fixed instead? The whole "extern inline" thing was
documented to work the way it did, this gcc breakage is annoying, and
I refuse tp apply patches that imply that it is a bug in the kernel
when it's the compiler that messes up.

So it's not "broken extern inline usage". It's a broken compiler
changing things. Again.

               Linus
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