diff --git a/otherarch/utils.cpp b/otherarch/utils.cpp
index 352bac182..1cbdb72b1 100644
--- a/otherarch/utils.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/utils.cpp
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ gpt_vocab::id gpt_sample_top_k_top_p(
     return logits_id[idx].second;
 }
 
-static bool should_transpose_layer(std::string name)
+bool should_transpose_layer(std::string name)
 {
        
     if(name.find(".mlp.fc_in.weight")!=std::string::npos || 
diff --git a/otherarch/utils.h b/otherarch/utils.h
index 479a364c8..32a26cb10 100644
--- a/otherarch/utils.h
+++ b/otherarch/utils.h
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ bool utils_gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params);
 void utils_gpt_print_usage(int argc, char ** argv, const gpt_params & params);
 std::string utils_gpt_random_prompt(std::mt19937 & rng);
 
-static bool should_transpose_layer(std::string name);
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+bool should_transpose_layer(std::string name);
\ No newline at end of file