Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [OLPC-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:15:46 +0200 |
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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__().
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