[Q] Why is this?

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:59:48 -0400 (EDT)


In trying to compile an IDEA encryption routine for the kernel, I'm
getting the following error:

ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \
fs/filesystems.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/pci/pci.a \
/usr/homes/nicholas/Computer/source/kernel/linux.idea/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/homes/nicholas/Computer/source/kernel/linux.idea/lib/lib.a /usr/homes/nicholas/Computer/source/kernel/linux.idea/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
drivers/block/block.a(idea.o): In function `idea_encrypt_block':
idea.o(.text+0x466): undefined reference to `memcpy'
idea.o(.text+0x4a8): undefined reference to `memcpy'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
elasped 0:45.57 87.3%

But many other files in drivers/block use memcpy. In fact, loop.c does
itself. So why can't it find it for my file?

loop.c: memcpy(loop_buf, raw_buf, size);
loop.c: memcpy(raw_buf, loop_buf, size);

N!
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