Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:16:05 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix |
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:07:39PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:01:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > Yes, but doesn't -ffreestanding imply that gcc _can't_ assume this is > > the standard library... > > Ignore strcpy. Yes, that's what visibly causing a failure here, > but the bug is in the funny pointer arithmetic. Leave that in > there and the compiler _will_ bite your ass sooner or later.
Er, which part of the 'funny pointer arithmetic' ? I take it you aren't a fan of the 'change to memcpy(namep,RELOC("linux,phandle"),sizeof("linux,phandle"));' fix. We need to do funny things here, and thus need a way to tell gcc to just do what we're saying.
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