Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754322AbXEDAqj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 20:46:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754338AbXEDAqj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 20:46:39 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:37552 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754317AbXEDAqi (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 20:46:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 02:46:36 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Rientjes Cc: Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unused Message-ID: <20070504004636.GU3531@stusta.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 27 On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:35:57PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: >... > There was a mistake in the current implementation of __attribute_used__ > whereas it would be defined to be __attribute__((used)) incorrectly for > gcc 3.3 and later. The unit-at-a-time compilation scheme was only > introduced in gcc 3.4 and later versions as specified in > http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.4/changes.html. >... AFAIR, Suse shipped a release of their distribution with a gcc 3.3 containing a backported unit-at-a-time. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/