Re: [patch] compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unused

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:35:57PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>...
> There was a mistake in the current implementation of __attribute_used__
> whereas it would be defined to be __attribute__((used)) incorrectly for
> gcc 3.3 and later.  The unit-at-a-time compilation scheme was only
> introduced in gcc 3.4 and later versions as specified in 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.4/changes.html.
>...

AFAIR, Suse shipped a release of their distribution with a gcc 3.3 
containing a backported unit-at-a-time.

cu
Adrian

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