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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:01:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> Yes, but doesn't -ffreestanding imply that gcc _can't_ assume this is
> the standard library...

Ignore strcpy.  Yes, that's what visibly causing a failure here,
but the bug is in the funny pointer arithmetic.  Leave that in
there and the compiler _will_ bite your ass sooner or later.


r~
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