From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jh@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] string fixes for gcc 3.4
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:43:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114094305.GQ31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114091543.GA2024@averell>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:15:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> gcc 3.4 optimizes sprintf(foo,"%s",string) into strcpy. Unfortunately
> that isn't seen by the inliner and linux/i386 has no out-of-line strcpy
> so you end up with a linker error.
The other alternative is -ffreestanding. Kernel in its current shape
certainly is not a hosted environment.
But I agree GCC does a better job with string/memory functions
than kernel with its inlines.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-14 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 9:15 [PATCH] string fixes for gcc 3.4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-14 9:43 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2004-01-14 10:02 ` Andi Kleen
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