On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:52 AM David Laight <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann > > Sent: 05 October 2018 09:33 > > > > Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning: > > > > kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warnign: no previous prototype for 'foo' > > [-Wmissing-prototypes] > > > > When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any > > other files. Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make > > it 'static' either since we want the compiler output. > > > > Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc > > does not insist on having a declaration for main. > > Ugg. > main() might be special in other ways too. > It wouldn't surprise me if some linkers don't do special stuff for it. > > What is wrong with just putting and extra "void foo(void);" before > the function?
Greg objected to that on the basis that we don't want declarations in .c files -- they should be in a shared header: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/21/735 I don't see what could go wrong here with calling it main(), after all we are just interested in the assembler output, not even creating an object file. Arnd
