Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] kernel-shark: Fix KS_DEFINE_PLUGIN_CONTEXT macro

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 10 May 2021 21:50:57 +0300
Yordan Karadzhov <y.karadz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10.05.21 г. 21:25, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 May 2021 14:53:08 +0300
> > Yordan Karadzhov <y.karadz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >>> Can you show me how you see this error, because this solution does not make
> >>> any sense.  
> >>
> >> The problem is that some plugins can build from multiple source files.
> >> For example in the case when part of the plugin is written in C and
> >> another part in C++. In those cases we cannot have the functions being
> >> static.  
> > 
> > So it's because its a mixture of C and C++ code? And you can't make them
> > static?  
> 
> No, this has no direct connection with C++. The static functions are the 
> same in C++.
> It became an issue if you have multiple source files. If this is the 
> case you have to put the macro in a header file, so that you can use the 
> functions defined in the macro in all your source files. But this does 
> not work, because the macro defines some global variables as well. To 
> solve this I defined second macro to be used only in the header, but 
> then the functions can't be static.
> 

Still does not make sense. Obviously, I'm missing something to connect the
dots.

Can you show me the error message that you are fixing.

Thanks,

-- Steve