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[haiku-development] Re: Reason for linkhack.c in the kernel?
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:27:37 +0100 CET
salierix <salierix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why is the empty file linkhack.c compiled into kernel_core.o and
> linked to
> form linkhack.so, both of which are used in linking
> the kernel executable. Obviously linkhack exists to solve some
> problem so
> I'm curious about what that may be.
IIRC it's needed to let GCC/ld work correctly; the kernel would not
export any symbols without it. It's been some time since I actually
looked at it, but it was really needed back then (dunno if that is
still the case with GCC 4) ;-)
Bye,
Axel.
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