Re: start___kallsyms missing from i386 vmlinux.lds ?

[Paul Gortmaker]

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:56:08 -0500,
> Paul Gortmaker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >--- linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds~       Fri Jul  7 03:47:07 2000
> >+++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds        Mon Jan  1 07:55:50 2001
> >+  __start___kallsyms = .;     /* All kernel symbols */
> >+  __kallsyms : { *(__kallsyms) }
> >+  __stop___kallsyms = .;
> 
> kernel/module.c defines
> extern const char __start___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));
> extern const char __stop___kallsyms[] __attribute__ ((weak));
> 
> The symbols are weak and do not need to be defined.  If gcc is not
> honouring __attribute__ ((weak)) then you have a broken or obsolete
> version of gcc.  You need at least gcc 2.91.66 for kernel 2.4.

Yep, saw the weak part - just noted while scanning test11 diff
that they were defined like the above patch for arch/sparc* and
wondered if the inconsistency was intentional.

Thanks,
Paul.

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