suggestion for GCC (1)

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 08.02.2011 00:04, schrieb Ian Lance Taylor:
> ali hagigat<hagigatali@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> A necessary feature for GCC is to compile C/Assembly programs without
>> standard libraries for Intel architectures.
> This feature can not and will not be implemented.  Some supporting
> routines are always required, particularly for gcc extensions like
> nested functions and __attribute__ ((cleanup)).
>
> Ian

IIRC the functions Ali mentioned (mem*) are the only required ones to 
build working binaries without C library (i.e. for bare metal targets). 
We do it this way at Rockbox.

But I wonder why, the mem* functions are trivial to implement in plain C 
so why does one need to provide them?

Best regards.