Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:34:59 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken |
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:19:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The problem is that at least some gcc versions would historically generate > calls to "bcopy" on alpha for structure assignments. Maybe it doesn't any > more, and no such old gcc versions exist any more, but who knows?
We're building with -ffreestanding now, so gcc isn't allowed to emit any calls to standard library functions.
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