# Re: \[PATCH 00/20\] x86: address -Wmissing-prototype warnings

- From: Dave Hansen \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-05-18 17:32:06 
- List: linux-trace-kernel
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-trace-kernel/2023/05/2202546
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-trace-kernel/2023/05/2199796/t.md

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On 5/16/23 12:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ones that are a bit awkward are those that just add a prototype to
> shut up the warning, but the prototypes are never used for calling the
> function because the only caller is in assembler code. I tried to come up
> with other ways to shut up the compiler using the asmlinkage annotation,
> but with no success.

I went looking for the same thing.  It's too bad gcc doesn't have an
__attribute__ for it.
```