[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] arm: add %function attribute to assembly functions

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 08:57:31 Aneesh V wrote:
> This is done using the following directive preceding
> each function definition:
> 
> .type <func-name>, %function
> 
> This marks the symbol as a function in the object
> header which in turn helps the linker in some cases.
> 
> In particular this was found needed for resolving ARM/Thumb
> calls correctly in a build with Thumb interworking enabled.

ideally arm would use the new linkage.h header and then these would change to 
doing what Linux does:
ENTRY(foo)
	<asm>
ENDPROC(foo)
-mike
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