Hi,
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I remember playing with using more gcc builtins in the kernel some time
> ago, and some gcc builtin used a different library function, which was a
> function the kernel did not supply.
>
> I don't remember the exact details, but this was the reason why I
> preferred using builtins only when explicitely enabled.
gcc can turn a sprintf() into strcpy(), which is a valid thing to do even
in a kernel environment. It can be turned off selectively, if it should
be a problem, so using -free-standing is IMO complete overkill.
bye, Roman
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