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

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen 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.
> 
> It works fine on x86-64. If something is missing it can be also supplied.

I think I now see what the real problem was, x86-64 does:

#define strcpy __builtin_strcpy

which also renames the version in lib/string.c, so x86-64 never had a 
fallback copy for __builtin_sprintf.
Can we please get rid of -freestanding and fix x86-64 instead?

bye, Roman
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