Messages in this thread |  | | From | Miguel Ojeda <> | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2018 23:18:06 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning |
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:35 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning: > > kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warnign: no previous prototype for 'foo' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > > When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any > other files. Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make > it 'static' either since we want the compiler output. > > Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc > does not insist on having a declaration for main.
I think marking the function as static __used should do the trick and would be less confusing.
Cheers, Miguel
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