Re: [git pull] sparseirq / irq updates for v2.6.29

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Dec 28 2008 - 18:12:18 EST




On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> well, it's a regression that is being worked on: certain buggy GCC
> versions (unclear yet what scope but quite rare it appears) optimize out
> __weak function calls incorrectly.

We've hit that kind of bug before, haven't we? I think the solution last
time was to make sure that the __weak function is never in the same
compilation unit as a call to it.

Linus
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