From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261762AbVAIUf0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:35:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261755AbVAIUfZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:35:25 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:42975 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261759AbVAIUfF (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:35:05 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:34:59 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Richard Henderson Subject: Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken Message-ID: <20050109203459.GA28788@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Richard Henderson References: <20050109192305.GA7476@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:19:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The problem is that at least some gcc versions would historically generate > calls to "bcopy" on alpha for structure assignments. Maybe it doesn't any > more, and no such old gcc versions exist any more, but who knows? We're building with -ffreestanding now, so gcc isn't allowed to emit any calls to standard library functions.