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Re: egcs-1.1 in SCOV5 changes memcpy() into buggy SCO bcopy()
- To: Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 in SCOV5 changes memcpy() into buggy SCO bcopy()
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 23:15:10 -0600
- cc: Eric Dumazet <dumazet at cosmosbay dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19980917001647.E1141@dgii.com>you write:
> > When a C program uses memcpy(), the assembly generated calls bcopy().
>
> I never noticed that before. I was pretty mystified. I ran the same
> compiler source on a Linux system and generated more obvious output.
Deep dark corners of the compiler you never wanted to know about.
Defining TARGET_MEM_FUNCTIONS is definitely the right think to do if
all the sco5 versions have them.
jeff