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

[Roman Zippel]

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.

bye, Roman
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