RE: [PATCH] cleanup legacy console_print function

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 14:11:14 EST


> Will it resolve the function symbol though? I dunno.
>
> I can drop the head.h completely and add:
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> extern void console_print(const char *s);
> #endif
>
> to head.S if that is a better option.

head.S is in assembler (hence the ".S" suffix). So adding
code wrapped inside #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ to it would be a
no-op.

On ia64 (and I think most other assemblers) it is not
necessary to provide any kind of "extern" declaration
before using external symbols.

-Tony
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