Re: [Patch] Compilation error on 2.5.8

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
15 Apr 2002 19:24:29 -0400


On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 19:34, Bongani wrote:

> Does this also look cleaner ?

> -static inline void setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
> -{
> -}
> +
> +#define setup_per_cpu_areas() do { } while(0)
> +

Personally yes, but others would disagree.

In fact, if we use a define setup_per_cpu_areas can not be used outside
of this compilation unit. Right now this looks to be the case, but if
something other than init/main.c wanted to use setup_per_cpu_areas we
would need to make the code an actual function or put the define in a
header file.

Since either case should optimize away, maybe we should make it a static
inline in both cases, since that is the authors original preference ...

Robert Love

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