The attached testcase does not compile for ppc64 using gcc confgured to generate ppc/ppc64 code.
Attached is a reduced testcase from kernel. This error was not happening with gcc 4.2 snapshot from January. I think it is related to static inline and extern inline. compile the attached testcase gcc -m64 -c test.c test.c:51: error: __ksymtab_cpu_add_sysdev_attr_group causes a section type conflict -- Summary: Compile error section type conflict Product: gcc Version: 4.2.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: target AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: raj dot khem at gmail dot com GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: powerpc-*-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31490