Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Cleanup possibility in asm-i386/string.h | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:23:35 +0100 |
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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.
-Andi
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