Author: imp Date: Tue Oct 25 14:42:09 2016 New Revision: 307911 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307911
Log: Add better comment... Modified: head/sys/boot/efi/loader/main.c Modified: head/sys/boot/efi/loader/main.c ============================================================================== --- head/sys/boot/efi/loader/main.c Tue Oct 25 14:18:27 2016 (r307910) +++ head/sys/boot/efi/loader/main.c Tue Oct 25 14:42:09 2016 (r307911) @@ -56,7 +56,17 @@ extern char bootprog_date[]; extern char bootprog_maker[]; #ifdef BOOT_FORTH -/* Force a reference to bring in EFI support from the library */ +/* + * Normally, efi.o from libefi.a would be brought in due to a function we call + * there that's defined there. However, none of its functions are callable from + * here since it just adds words to the FORTH environment or implement those + * words. So, add a reference to a symbol in efi.o to force it to be be brought + * in so the init function there gets added to the "compile" linker set happens + * correctly. + * + * This assumes there's no global analysys that notices dummy1 isn't used + * anywhere and tries to eliminate it. + */ extern int efi_variable_support; int *dummy1 = &efi_variable_support; #endif _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
