[PATCH 0/5] use portable macro for weak linking

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 4:06 AM Andre Muezerie
<andremue at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> MSVC uses pragmas to indicate weak linking, so the old __rte_weak
> attribute needs to made into a macro so that the same syntax can
> be used for MSVC and other compilers like gcc.
>
> Andre Muezerie (5):
>   lib/eal: add portable macro for weak linking
>   app/test-compress-perf: use portable macro for weak linking
>   drivers/bus: use portable macro for weak linking
>   drivers/common: use portable macro for weak linking
>   drivers/net: use portable macro for weak linking

I am not a fan of the weak linking stuff in the first place.
Reading the code with __rte_weak, I always wonder which symbol is used when...
I prefer explicit linking and no duplicate symbols end up in the binaries.

I posted a RFC, can you have a look?
https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20250207083252.3131588-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/


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David Marchand