19/03/2019 19:04, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 3/19/2019 5:34 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> +uint16_t __rte_experimental
> >>
> >> Do we need _rte_experimental on function definitions? I guess only in .h
> >> file,
> >> function declaration is enough.
> >
> > Yes we need them both in .h and .c files.
>
> Why we need them in .c file?
> I think the compiler is interested in ones in .h file, because of the
> experimental checks.
We need the tag in .c file because a check is done in the ELF object
by buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh
David tried a replacement of this script to run on header files,
but it looks a bit slow:
https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49118/
