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Message-ID: <4693EFBF.4070605@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:44:47 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
CC: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
andi@...stfloor.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [x86 setup 16/33] String-handling functions for the new x86 setup
code.
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> Nope. The builtins not only vary between gcc versions, but they also
>> have a nasty tendency to generate calls to library functions, sometimes
>> libgcc functions. Hence -ffreestanding.
>
> -ffreestanding will still generate calls to libgcc functions.
> -ffreestanding doesn't disable _all_ of the C library, either.
>
No, it doesn't, but it does inhibit builtin functions, and so provides a
bit more ABI stability.
-hpa
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