Re: [PATCH 1 of 3] Introduce __raw_memcpy_toio32

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:20:32AM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:32 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Unless someone can think of a problem with attribute(weak), I think you'll
> > find that it's the simplest-by-far solution.
> 
> The only problem I can see with this is that on x86_64 and other
> platforms that reimplement the routine as an inline function, I think
> we'll be left with a small hunk of dead code in the form of the
> out-of-line version in lib/ that never gets referenced.
If it is not referenced the linker should not pull it in from lib.a -
no?
	Sam
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