Re: [PATCH 4/7] x86, boot, LLVM: #undef memcpy etc in string.c

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 18:44:21 EST


On 06/22/17 15:31, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> (removed some non-x86 lists and folks from recipients)
>
> El Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:15:17PM -0700 Michael Davidson ha dit:
>
>> undef memcpy and friends in boot/string.c so that the functions
>> defined here will have the correct names, otherwise we end up
>> up trying to redefine __builtin_memcpy etc.
>> Surprisingly, gcc allows this (and, helpfully, discards the
>> __builtin_ prefix from the function name when compiling it),
>> but clang does not.
>>
>> Adding these #undef's appears to preserve what I assume was
>> the original intent of the code.
>
> Any comments on this patch?
>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/boot/string.c | 9 +++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
>> index 5457b02fc050..b40266850869 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/boot/string.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/string.c
>> @@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
>> #include "ctype.h"
>> #include "string.h"
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Undef these macros so that the functions that we provide
>> + * here will have the correct names regardless of how string.h
>> + * may have chosen to #define them.
>> + */
>> +#undef memcpy
>> +#undef memset
>> +#undef memcmp
>> +
>> int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t len)
>> {
>> bool diff;

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

-hpa