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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] fs/buffer.c:init_buffer() mustn't be inline
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:01:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> <
> > This patch fixes the following build error with UML and gcc 4.3:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > CC fs/buffer.o
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c: In function ‘init_page_buffers’:
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c:51: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘init_buffer’: function body not available
> > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c:1007: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
> > make[2]: *** [fs/buffer.o] Error 1
>
> Can somebody tell why this is not a gcc bug?

It is a gcc bug.

But having a global function marked as extern was already questionable,
and all assumptions an "inline" would always inline the code are anyway
now broken in your tree.

So let's work around a gcc bug by fixing the kernel...

> Linus

cu
Adrian

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