<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ladypine@gmail.com">ladypine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muli@il.ibm.com" target="_blank">muli@il.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:11:36PM +0200, Erez D wrote:<br>
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> I have a function which is not called in a regular way, so gcc<br>
> thinks it is dead code. however it is not, and i am looking for a<br>
> way to tell the linker not to remove it.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div></div><div>And set the function pointer to a global variable, so that the linker cannot know if the value is used or not.</div><div>This trick I learned from Nadav Har'El worked through many compilers and linkers over the past decade. </div>
</div></div></blockquote><div>i know this hack, but i preffered a direct method<br><br>thanks,<br>erez. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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