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Re: gcc 3.4, error: conflicting types for local extern variabled

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> is this a new feature, do we have to fix the kernel?


> [...]
> setup.c: In function `find_bootinfo':
>
> setup.c:433: error: conflicting types for '__bss_start'
> setup.c:261: error: previous declaration of '__bss_start'

What is in line 261?

> olaf@nectarine:/dev/shm/linux-2.4.23-pre4/arch/ppc/kernel> grep -n __bss_start setup.c                                                                              261:    extern char __bss_start, _end;                                                                                                                              270:    memset_io(PTRRELOC(&__bss_start), 0, &_end - &__bss_start);
> 433:    extern char __bss_start[];
> 435:    rec = (struct bi_record *)_ALIGN((ulong)__bss_start+(1<<20)-1,(1<<20));
> 442:            rec = (struct bi_record *)_ALIGN((ulong)__bss_start+0x10000+(1<<20)-1,(1<<20));
>
> __bss_start is defined in the linker script.
>
> olaf@nectarine:/dev/shm/linux-2.4.23-pre4/arch/ppc/kernel> grep -C2 __bss_start ../vmlinux.lds 
>   __openfirmware_end = .;
>
>   __bss_start = .;
>   .bss       :
>   {

Andreas
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