On 08.03.2018 00:11, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/06/2018 12:18 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: >> bootmap.h can currently only be included once - otherwise the linker >> complains about multiple definitions of the "magic" strings. > > My first thought when reading that was "Huh? bootmap.h has a proper[*] > double-inclusion header guard, and therefore a second #include > "bootmap.h" is a no-op - so how can including the header more than once > cause a linker complaint?"
Sorry if the description was not precise enough ... but I think it's clear if you think about it twice ;-) > [*] Well, proper if you overlook the fact that the name > _PC_BIOS_S390_CCW_BOOTMAP_H starts with a leading underscore followed by > uppercase, and is therefore violating namespace safety rules, as it > could collide with a symbol reserved for the implementation Yeah, we've got a couple of these left. I recently added a task to the BiteSizedTasks page to clean those up. > Your change is fine (moving the declaration into the one .c file that > needs them), so no need to change this, but... > >> +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.h >> @@ -375,9 +375,6 @@ static inline void read_iso_boot_image(uint32_t >> block_offset, void *load_addr, >> "Failed to read boot image!"); >> } >> -const uint8_t el_torito_magic[] = "EL TORITO SPECIFICATION" >> - "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"; > > ...would adding 'static' here also solved the linker error (at the risk > of possibly causing a compiler warning/error about unused variable)? Yes, we would likely get a warning about unused variable instead, so that's not a real option. Thomas
