On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:02, Frank Davis wrote:
> Hello all,
> Per a recent email on linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alan Cox stated
> that
> #define STATIC static
>
> is outdated (no longer used). As a result, I've removed references to
> the outdated macro in all files except for XFS (defined in
> fs/xfs/linux/xfs_linux.h) within the 2.5.44-ac1 kernel. Would it be
> possible for the XFS team to also remove this outdated macro? Thanks.
You mean you could not face all 833 of them which are in there ;-)
I can think of better ways to spend an afternoon I have to admit.
The only reason I can think of needing this is for symbol tables
in debuggers - and trying to keep some semblance of the same
code base between Irix and Linux. Not sure if we really have
a debugger setup on linux where being able to turn off static
helps to be honest, does a gdb symbol table include static
functions?
Unless someone is feeling bored and wants to knock up a sed script
I am not sure this will happen, but I don't really have an objection
beyond the above.
Steve
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