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Re: Generated libcalls
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Jeffrey A . Law" <law at cygnus dot com>, Ruediger Hoereth <rh at suse dot de>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at suse dot cz>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Generated libcalls
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:00:13 -0800
- References: <20000229231752.L20805@Jeffreys.suse.de>
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> Jan's recent addition of stringop optimization also lowered the limit up to
> which gcc will inline memcpy calls. This broke some Linux kernel modules.
[...]
> As IMO this is important for any freestanding target...
No, it's not at all important. The x86 linux kernel should provide
memcpy as a symbol just like the alpha linux kernel does.
r~