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

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Friday 10 February 2006 01:05, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:39:50PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > > This means you define a prototype for the builtin function and not for the 
> > > > normal function. I'm not sure this is really intended.
> > > 
> > > What good would be a prototype for a symbol that is defined to a different symbol?
> > 
> > The point is you define a prototype for a builtin function, I'm not sure 
> > that's a good thing to do.
> > Actually I'd prefer to remove -ffreestanding again, especially because it
> > disables builtin functions, which we have to painfully enable all again 
> > one by one, instead of leaving it just to gcc.
> 
> I remember playing with using more gcc builtins in the kernel some time 
> ago, and some gcc builtin used a different library function, which was a 
> function the kernel did not supply.

It works fine on x86-64. If something is missing it can be also supplied.

-Andi