Re: checking if CC supports weak symbols

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Raja R Harinath <address@hidden> writes:
[snip]
> |>   * The Intel C compiler for Linux is supposed to be able to compile
> |>     the Linux kernel.  New versions the Linux kernel do use weak
> |>     symbols (possibly with this syntax) -- so maybe the Intel
> |>     compiler would too.
> |> 
> |> The second is somewhat far-fetched.  Support for #pragma weak ... and
> |> _Pragma("weak", ...) is likelier.
>
> The Linux kernel source already uses __attribute__ in other contexts, so
> icc needs to grok the syntax anyway.

Yep.  But, the Linux kernel started using attribute ((weak, ...))
only recently.  So, icc may not do anything useful there.

- Hari
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