Re: [PATCH] MACHINE_START fix

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 03:53:00 EST


Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> unreferenced static variables can be killed by cc(1), so when
> we want them to survive (we collect these suckers in array in special
> section), we'd better not make them static.

What about __attribute__used__?

Andreas.

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