Re: [PATCH] Use gcc alias instead of assembler aliases for syscalls

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:42:01AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:59:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon,  5 Aug 2013 15:09:35 -0700 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Use standard gcc __attribute__((alias(foo))) to define
> > > the syscall aliases instead of custom assembler macros.
> > > 
> > > This is far cleaner, and also fixes my LTO kernel build.
> > 
> > I wonder what gcc version this was added in.  Seems fairly longstanding.
> 
> Seems to be already in 2.95, so every kernel compiler

IIRC, there had been some architectures where it didn't work correctly.
I don't remember details, though...   Geert?
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