Re: "Needlessly global functions static...."

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 16:28:44 EST


* linux-os (linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Tell me. When all those kernel functions are made static
> how does one use a kernel debugger? How does the OOPS
> get decoded if nothing is in /proc/kallsyms or System.map???

static != inline. Locally scoped symbols, 't', and global, 'T',
are in kallsyms or System.map.

thanks,
-chris
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