> Sergey Kubushin <ksi@ksi-linux.com> said:
> > 2.2.13-pre6 i386 build fails with gcc-2.95.1:
> >
> > === Cut ===
> > usercopy.c: In function `strnlen_user':
> > usercopy.c:145: Invalid `asm' statement:
> > usercopy.c:145: fixed or forbidden register 2 (cx) was spilled for class
> > CREG.
> > make[2]: *** [usercopy.o] Error 1
> > === Cut ===
> >
> > Is the cure known?
>
> An illegal asm constraint, again...
>
> BTW, the function definition itself bothers me a lot: it is called
> strnlen_user; but doesn't return the string's length, but its size; or some
> weird values that signal various errors. I'd clean it up to return a string
> length (I can see the unending patches "fixing" the uses assuming it
> returns a proper length...), -EFAULT for bad addresses, or -E2BIG (?) for
> strings that are too long.
Will somebody fix it?
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