Brad Parker wrote:
>
> Anyone know how to cure the message:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.3.47/include/linux/fs.h:769: warning: implicit declaration of function `abs'
>
> in the 2.3.47 build?
>
> abs is #defined in stdlib.h but I'm not sure that's used in the kernel builds.
>
> (did I miss some patches?)
It is harmless, and the warning has been around for a while.
Someone needs to
1) investigate why this warning does not occur on x86. (is it a gcc
builtin?)
2) grep through the entire tree, and clean up all the references to abs,
perhaps moving the definition of abs() to common header file
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