Thanks Steve, where is this patch from? Is this debian made or from
bugzilla or somewhere? If it is not yet know to upstream I will forward it.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:07:51AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: mozilla
> Severity: serious
>
> The current mozilla package fails to build on alpha, arm, and ia64
> because it uses __attribute__((unused)) to mark static functions that
> are called only from assembly routines. As of gcc 3.1,
> __attribute__((used)) exists for marking static functions that are used;
> as of gcc 4.0, __attribute__((unused)) still suppresses compiler
> warnings about unused static functions, but it does *not* prevent the
> compiler from optimizing them away.
>
> The attached patch should fix this failure for all three architectures.
> It has only been tested on alpha, and each architecture has its own
> implementation for this bit of code, but this patch fixes all uses of
> __attribute__((unused)), so it should be sufficient. (FWIW, one other
> architecture -- i386 -- already uses ((used)) in the code...)
>
> Since this bug is in the XPCOM code, it also affects other packages that
> build copies of XPCOM. I'll clone this bug off to them as soon as I
> have a bug number back.
>
> Thanks,
- Alexander
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