[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] RFC: Let linker create phy array

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Feb 7 16:20:43 CET 2012


On Monday 06 February 2012 16:01:56 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Le 06/02/2012 21:57, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> >> The would give me compiler warnings for unused variables. How does that
> >> help?
> > 
> > does gcc issue warnings ?  doesn't seem to do so for me.
> 
> Some do, and some will.

vague ... be nice to have actual examples

> >> Is there a keep attribute like the linker has for sections?
> > 
> > yes, __attribute__((used))
> 
> What is the point in adding a 'static' qualifier and a ((used))
> attribute, when not adding them in the first place gives the same result?

to control the visibility
-mike
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