From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Export gcov symbol based on gcc version
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:00:56 +0100
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On Friday 11 March 2005 00:21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch is still wrong.
>
> Can't we just fix it by havign an alias for both names?
No, because the patch is wrong. It should export both symbols in the second 
case.
> 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..
>
>   Linus

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