[PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Wed Jan 2 06:56:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Tom Rini wrote:

> 3) We could also try turning off this particular optimization
> (-fno-builtin perhaps) on this file, and not worry about it.

In particular, it would probably make sense for the kernel to use 
-ffreestanding (which implies -fno-builtin) throughout then selectively 
enable the built-in functions that are wanted with macros such as

#define strcpy(d, s) __builtin_strcpy((d), (s))

in an appropriate header, then #undef these macros in the files that
shouldn't use the built-in functions.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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