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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