From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: joshk@triplehelix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1-mm2
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:30:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719213038.5c719bbe.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030719212715.42be9277.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:27:15 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> wrote:
> > /* References to section boundaries */
> > -extern char _text, _etext, _edata, __bss_start, _end;
> > +extern char _text[], _etext[], _edata[], __bss_start[], _end[];
>
> No, the declaration simply needs to be deleted; it is already provided by
> asm/sections.h.
>
> Incorrectly, I believe. Those symbols are conventionally "extern int".
True, from some perspective.
But you have to admit the pointer math gets real ugly if we declare
them in that way. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-20 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-20 0:43 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-07-20 2:41 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Joshua Kwan
2003-07-20 4:27 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-07-20 4:30 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-07-20 4:29 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Joshua Kwan
2003-07-20 5:47 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Michael Morris
2003-07-20 6:12 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-07-20 4:40 ` 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Martin J. Bligh
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