Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:43:05 -0500
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
Message-ID: <20040114094305.GQ31589@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
References: <20040114091543.GA2024@averell>
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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
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