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Re: Undefined static functions

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:01:23 -0700
Subject: Re: Undefined static functions
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408302342100.16433@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:11:20AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> (b) Is there any reason this shouldn't be a hard error rather than just a 
> pedwarn?

The function implementation is contained within a file-scope asm.  I need
to tell the compiler that the symbol is locally defined (static as opposed
to extern), so that the proper set of relocations are selected.

I have used this often in kernel and libc code.

r~

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