Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261169AbVCKQQm (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:16:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261160AbVCKQQm (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:16:42 -0500 Received: from lakshmi.addtoit.com ([198.99.130.6]:1034 "EHLO lakshmi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261169AbVCKQQe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:16:34 -0500 Message-Id: <200503111847.j2BIl1Jp003348@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.1-RC1 To: Linus Torvalds cc: Adrian Bunk , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jdike@ccure.user-mode-linux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:21:42 PST." References: <200503100216.j2A2G2DN015232@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20050310225340.GD3205@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:47:01 -0500 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 20 torvalds@osdl.org said: > Can't we just fix it by havign an alias for both names? It seems > stupid to jump through hoops and worry about compiler versions, when > afaik we could just do something like > extern xxxx(...) __attribute__((alias("yyyy"))); > instead. Exact details left to the reader who knows more about all the > magic gcc/linker things.. OK, this exceeds my current linker-fu, but I'll take a look and get a better fix for this. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/