why asmlinkage is needed?

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:57:58 +0200 (CEST)


#ifdef __cplusplus
#define asmlinkage extern "C"
#else
#define asmlinkage
#endif

We don' t comile the kernel with g++, so why is asmlinkage used somewhere
in the kernel function declaration?

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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