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Re: discarding rules for duplicate ELF comdat groups
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
> While probably any of the __weak functions in Linux would be
> good as example, just look at get_user_pages_fast() - it has a
> __weak implementation in mm/util.c, and several arches
> provide their own. It would be desirable to not keep the dead
> general implementation around when overridden.
>
> While for each individual function the amount of dead code
> may be small, it sums up (and grows as new cases get added).
I think this idea should be raised on the generic-abi@googlegroups.com
mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi .
Ian