Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:25:01 +0300
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: alpha build errors with gcc 4.3
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The only architecture that has serious problems when trying to build a 
kernel with gcc 4.3, and considering the usage of "extern inline" on 
this architecture problems with gcc 4.3 are somehow expected.

The build fails with:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      arch/alpha/kernel/traps.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
In file included from 
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h:64,
                 from 
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c:12:
include2/asm/semaphore.h: In function 'down':
include2/asm/semaphore.h:133: error: '__down' is static but used in inline function 'down' which is not static
...
make[2]: *** [arch/alpha/kernel/traps.o] Error 1

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cu
Adrian

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