Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:53:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: Cleanup possibility in asm-i386/string.h |
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Hi,
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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. > > I don't remember the exact details, but this was the reason why I > preferred using builtins only when explicitely enabled.
gcc can turn a sprintf() into strcpy(), which is a valid thing to do even in a kernel environment. It can be turned off selectively, if it should be a problem, so using -free-standing is IMO complete overkill.
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