On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:11:36PM +0200, Erez D wrote: >> >> > I have a function which is not called in a regular way, so gcc >> > thinks it is dead code. however it is not, and i am looking for a >> > way to tell the linker not to remove it. >> >> extern >> >> >> And set the function pointer to a global variable, so that the linker > cannot know if the value is used or not. > This trick I learned from Nadav Har'El worked through many compilers and > linkers over the past decade. > i know this hack, but i preffered a direct method thanks, erez. > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > > -- > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. > http://ladypine.org >
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