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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 06:30:12 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide out-of-line strcat() for m68k
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:34:58AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > Whether we sidestep it in init/main.c or not, such situations
> > will arise again; compiler does generate calls of strcat()
> > on optimizations, so we really ought to have an out-of-line
> > version...
> 
> It actually was strlen that was generated and not strcat.

Here it replaced strncat() with call of strcat() (gcc 4.0.1, FWIW).
And yes, I can show you init/main.s with
	jbsr strcat	|
in it generated on kernel in b0rken range...