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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 02:03:24 +0000
From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] lib: prepare xxhash for preboot environment
> On Jul 7, 2020, at 5:59 PM, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:45:58PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
>> From: Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
>>
>> Don't export symbols if XXH_PREBOOT is defined.
>>
>> This change is necessary to get xxhash to work in a preboot environment,
>> which is needed to support zstd-compressed kernels.
>
> The usual way to do it is by adding -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS to the CFLAGS, which will
> cause EXPORT_SYMBOL to be stubbed out. Doesn't that work here?
I can do that. I did it this way because this was how other compressors did it.
Thanks,
Nick
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