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On Thursday 24 August 2006 18:48, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > If visibility supports had been in GCC a long time ago, I am sure we would > not need EXPORT_SYMBOL today, or rather, would do it by use of > __attribute__() rather than a macro that ksymtabs it. Or am I possibly > misunderstanding something? > It's probably true, but the way it's done today gave us CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which would break when turning EXPORT_SYMBOL into a simple __attribute__(). Arnd <>< - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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