Re: [-mm patch] init/main.c: dummy mark_rodata_ro() should bestatic

[Andrew Morton]

Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:54:40PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:46:51PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>  > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > Every inline dummy function should be static.
>  > > 
>  > > Please explain why it matters in this case.
>  > 
>  > We don't need an additional global copy of the function.
> 
> it's an empty body, surely the compiler will compile it away ?
> 

With

inline void foo(void)
{
}

The compiler has to put an out-of-line copy of foo() into this .o file in
case some other .o file calls it.
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