Generated libcalls

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Wed Mar 8 17:00:00 GMT 2000


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~


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