LTO & top-level ASM

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>    I've been solving undefined symbols related to:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/PR57703. In chromium there's a following inline asm:
>
> asm(".type Syscall, @function\n" ...);
>
> intptr_t SandboxSyscall(...)
> {
>    asm volatile("call SyscallAsm");
> }

Can you explain why you need that asm statement?

Normally the .type declaration would appear where the Syscall symbol
is defined.  Why are you putting it elsewhere?

Ian