linux-kernel - Re: -ffreestanding or not -ffreestanding

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 13:44:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -ffreestanding or not -ffreestanding

Hi,

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Can we try to get this sorted out properly instead of constantly 
> fiddling with it?
> 
> Currently we use -ffreestanding on some architectures and fix breakages 
> on the other architectures when they arise.

This won't help completely unless you also clean up all archs to use the 
same mappings to the builtin functions.

The main problem I had with -ffreestanding is that it's awkward to map a 
library function to the builtin function and also provide the fallback 
from lib/string.c.
If you look at asm-m68k/string.h I once tried this with the mem* functions 
and I still have the duplicated memcmp in arch/m68k/lib/string.c.
(You could argue that it would be easier to just remove the define for 
memcmp in this specific case, but I'm interested in the general case.)

bye, Roman
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