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From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date:   Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:43:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] efi/gop: Refactoring + mode-setting feature
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 00:56, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:36:25AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > Yes, -ffreestanding implies -fno-builtin, which means that the
> > compiler cannot assume it knows (and can optimize away) the behavior
> > of strlen(), memset(), etc.
>
> Yes exactly. Do you foresee any problems with removing it?
>

I'm not sure why it is there in the first place, but I wouldn't extend
huge issues when we remove it.