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

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > #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?
> 
> Ok I can fix that. Just removing the defines should be ok i guess 
> (afaik gcc detects them automatically as the builtin) 

Not with -freestanding.

> I don't know if the freestanding in the main Makefile isn't needed 
> for other architectures so I won't touch it right now.

Well, it was added for x86-64...
It shouldn't break anything, that isn't already broken. 

bye, Roman
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