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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] kill IN_STRING_C
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:57:12PM -0500, linux-os wrote:
>> ...
>> call strcpy
>> ...
>> strcpy:
>> subl $8, %esp
>> ...
>> It clearly invents strcpy, having never been referenced in the
>> source.
>
> The asm code you sent does _not_ call a global strcpy function.
> It calls an asm procedure named "strcpy" it ships itself.
>
> BTW: You are the second person in this thread I have to explain this to...
>
>> Cheers,
>> Dick Johnson
>
> cu
> Adrian

Explain WHAT? There is NO strcpy in the code. No such procedure
should have been called. Period. The generated code is defective.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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