Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:54:47 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MACHINE_START fix |
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:43:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > unreferenced static variables can be killed by cc(1), so when > we want them to survive (we collect these suckers in array in special > section), we'd better not make them static.
Except this causes sparse to complain, which is why I made it static last night. Patch nacked.
What I did miss was making it __attribute_used__ which would be the correct answer.
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