Drasko DRASKOVIC <drasko.draskovic@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I wanted to prevent compiler from optimizing out several variables of > Linux kerenel, so I can debug it in GDB, so I used > __attribute__((used)) following this philosophy : > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0491c/BABCJJID.html > > However, trying to compile my kernel, I am getting the error : > arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c:73: error: 'used' attribute ignored > > Why is this happening ? > > Compiler version : > Target: mips-openwrt-linux-uclibc > gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) Please show us the relevant code. Ian