On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:07 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > This is a new attribute in gcc 4.3, which when used and sparse is > > compiled with gcc 4.3 leads to unknown attribute errors. Ignore it. > > According to > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html, the new > attributes are "cold" and "hot". I think we need them ignored both > with and without underscores. > > The attributes indicate whether the function is likely to be executed, > and thus affect optimization. There is nothing useful for sparse in > that information. *Shrug*. I just wanted the kernel to work again and failed (in about 20 minutes of searching) to find a changelog for gcc mentioning this so gave up and just added the one that the kernel uses. Want to amend the patch? johannes
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