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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libnftnl] src: restore static array with expression
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:54:33 +0000
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On 23.03, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> 
>  Here is the first mail I sent to netfilter@.
>  The whole thread can be read at
>  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.general/47842


Thanks. Seems the reason is that the linker will discard unused
symbols and from its' perspective the contructors are unused.

I tried experimenting with __attribute__((used)) but it doesn't
help.

What does work is using

-Wl,--whole-archive libnftnl.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive

Not sure if we want to take this path, but it seems acceptable to
me.