Mark __rte_weak as deprecated. It will avoid having to support such feature with other linkers, plus this was never really needed.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.rst | 2 ++ lib/eal/include/rte_common.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.rst index ca67c17c5c..8867a4bd74 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.rst @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ API Changes * eal: The ``__rte_packed`` macro for packing data is replaced with ``__rte_packed_begin`` / ``__rte_packed_end``. +* eal: The ``__rte_weak`` macro is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. + * net: Changed the API for CRC calculation to be thread-safe. An opaque context argument was introduced to the net CRC API containing the algorithm type and length. diff --git a/lib/eal/include/rte_common.h b/lib/eal/include/rte_common.h index 3f77b7624e..4be65376a5 100644 --- a/lib/eal/include/rte_common.h +++ b/lib/eal/include/rte_common.h @@ -179,7 +179,11 @@ typedef uint16_t unaligned_uint16_t; /** * Mark a function or variable to a weak reference. */ -#define __rte_weak __attribute__((__weak__)) +#ifdef RTE_TOOLCHAIN_MSVC +#define __rte_weak RTE_DEPRECATED(__rte_weak) +#else +#define __rte_weak RTE_DEPRECATED(__rte_weak) __attribute__((__weak__)) +#endif /** * Mark a function to be pure. -- 2.48.1
