Re: Cleanup possibility in asm-i386/string.h

[Adrian Bunk]

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.

I don't remember the exact details, but this was the reason why I 
preferred using builtins only when explicitely enabled.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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