Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32: Remove __main()

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:22:51PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Comment says that __main() is there to make GCC happy.
> 
> It's been there since the implementation of ppc arch in Linux 1.3.45.
> 
> ppc32 is the only architecture having that. Even ppc64 doesn't have it.
> 
> Seems like GCC is still happy without it.
> 
> Drop it for good.

If you used G++ to build the kernel there could be a call to __main
inserted under some circumstances.   It is used in functions called
"main" if there is no other way to do initialisations (this should not
happen if you use -ffreestanding, and there should not be a function
called "main" anyway, but who knows).

Either way, yup, this is ancient history :-)


Segher