[PATCH] ARM: Fix uncompress code compile for different definesof static(void)

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Jan 14 04:15:56 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> I think the cleanest solution would be to remove -Dstatic=.  I don't
> know the exact reason for it being there.

Thereby breaking the ability to build a relocatable decompressor.

> Russell, maybe these toolchain problems are gone in the meantime?

I don't think it was toolchain problems.  Having the text and data
segments independently relocatable is actually an abuse of the ELF
format - it's not something it directly supports.



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