From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:42:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501091240550.2339@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050109203459.GA28788@infradead.org>
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> We're building with -ffreestanding now, so gcc isn't allowed to emit
> any calls to standard library functions.
Bzzt. It still emits calls to libgcc.
It cannot _not_ do so. There are simply operations that gcc doesn't
generate native code for, ie divides on certain architectures etc.
And that very much includes bcopy/memcpy on most architectures.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-09 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 19:23 removing bcopy... because it's half broken Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 19:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-01-09 20:03 ` Russell King
2005-01-09 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-09 20:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 20:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-09 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-01-11 10:10 ` Bastian Blank
2005-01-11 10:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-11 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-09 23:38 ` Richard Henderson
2005-01-10 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-10 16:55 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
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