Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261537AbUKIMsn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:48:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261539AbUKIMsm (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:48:42 -0500 Received: from alog0093.analogic.com ([208.224.220.108]:16768 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261537AbUKIMsg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:48:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:44:11 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Adrian Bunk cc: Pawe?? Sikora , Linux kernel Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kill IN_STRING_C In-Reply-To: <20041108230859.GL15077@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20041107142445.GH14308@stusta.de> <20041108161935.GC2456@wotan.suse.de> <20041108163101.GA13234@stusta.de> <200411081904.13969.pluto@pld-linux.org> <20041108183120.GB15077@stusta.de> <20041108212713.GH15077@stusta.de> <20041108222952.GJ15077@stusta.de> <20041108230859.GL15077@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 37 On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:57:12PM -0500, linux-os wrote: >> ... >> call strcpy >> ... >> strcpy: >> subl $8, %esp >> ... >> It clearly invents strcpy, having never been referenced in the >> source. > > The asm code you sent does _not_ call a global strcpy function. > It calls an asm procedure named "strcpy" it ships itself. > > BTW: You are the second person in this thread I have to explain this to... > >> Cheers, >> Dick Johnson > > cu > Adrian Explain WHAT? There is NO strcpy in the code. No such procedure should have been called. Period. The generated code is defective. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by John Ashcroft. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/