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diff --git a/lib/memory.h b/lib/memory.h
index 0002ea3349..14cd76f2f5 100644
--- a/lib/memory.h
+++ b/lib/memory.h
@@ -102,9 +102,14 @@ struct memgroup {
}
+/* the array is a trick to make the "MTYPE_FOO" name work as a pointer without
+ * putting a & in front of it, so we can do "XMALLOC(MTYPE_FOO, ...)" instead
+ * of "XMALLOC(&MTYPE_FOO, ...)".
+ */
#define DECLARE_MTYPE(name) \
extern struct memtype _mt_##name; \
- static struct memtype *const MTYPE_##name = &_mt_##name;
+ extern struct memtype MTYPE_##name[1]; \
+ /* end */
#define DEFINE_MTYPE_ATTR(group, mname, attr, desc) \
attr struct memtype _mt_##mname \
@@ -130,12 +135,21 @@ struct memgroup {
if (_mt_##mname.next) \
_mt_##mname.next->ref = _mt_##mname.ref; \
*_mt_##mname.ref = _mt_##mname.next; \
- }
-
-#define DEFINE_MTYPE(group, name, desc) DEFINE_MTYPE_ATTR(group, name, , desc)
+ } \
+ /* end */
+
+/* can't quite get gcc to emit the alias correctly, so asm-alias it is :/ */
+#define DEFINE_MTYPE(group, name, desc) \
+ DEFINE_MTYPE_ATTR(group, name, , desc) \
+ __asm__(".equiv MTYPE_" #name ", _mt_" #name "\n\t" \
+ ".global MTYPE_" #name "\n"); \
+ /* end */
+/* and this one's borked on clang, it drops static on aliases :/, so... asm */
#define DEFINE_MTYPE_STATIC(group, name, desc) \
DEFINE_MTYPE_ATTR(group, name, static, desc) \
- static struct memtype *const MTYPE_##name = &_mt_##name;
+ extern struct memtype MTYPE_##name[1]; \
+ __asm__(".equiv MTYPE_" #name ", _mt_" #name "\n"); \
+ /* end */
DECLARE_MGROUP(LIB)
DECLARE_MTYPE(TMP)