linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/20] x86: address -Wmissing-prototype warnings

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Message-ID: <d03ef733-8098-69b7-97c2-304f1195e2a4@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 May 2023 10:31:16 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] x86: address -Wmissing-prototype warnings

On 5/16/23 12:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ones that are a bit awkward are those that just add a prototype to
> shut up the warning, but the prototypes are never used for calling the
> function because the only caller is in assembler code. I tried to come up
> with other ways to shut up the compiler using the asmlinkage annotation,
> but with no success.

I went looking for the same thing.  It's too bad gcc doesn't have an
__attribute__ for it.