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SubjectRe: Cleanup possibility in asm-i386/string.h
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On Feb 09, 2006, at 19:23, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 01:05, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:39:50PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This means you define a prototype for the builtin function and
>>>>> not for the normal function. I'm not sure this is really intended.
>>>>
>>>> What good would be a prototype for a symbol that is defined to a
>>>> different symbol?
>>>
>>> The point is you define a prototype for a builtin function, I'm
>>> not sure that's a good thing to do. Actually I'd prefer to remove
>>> -ffreestanding again, especially because it disables builtin
>>> functions, which we have to painfully enable all again one by
>>> one, instead of leaving it just to gcc.
>>
>> I remember playing with using more gcc builtins in the kernel some
>> time ago, and some gcc builtin used a different library function,
>> which was a function the kernel did not supply.
>
> It works fine on x86-64. If something is missing it can be also
> supplied.

I don't remember exactly, but I think the problem was something like
this (even if not this exact case, it was similarly obscure): If -
ffreestanding was not specified, then the following code would
generate an implicit call to memcpy() or some other library function.

struct a {
[... large struct with lots of fields ...]
}

struct a first = { ..... };
[... more code ...];
struct a second = first; /* <== This line would generate implicit
memcpy */

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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Diplomacy involves walking softly and _carrying_ a big stick.
Actually using the big stick means the diplomacy part failed.
-- Rob Landley



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