Subject: Re: kern/13369: gcc inlines memcpy(3)
To: Oleg Polianski <Oleg.Polianski@clear.co.nz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/05/2001 09:45:04
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:12:51AM +1200, Oleg Polianski wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
>
> There is a special option, `-fno-builtin', that prevents gcc from
> recognizing and inlining of well known functions like `memcpy', `memcmp' and
> some other (math) functions. Plese consult `info gcc' for more information.
The problem is not that gcc inlines memcpy, it's that there are places
where we use memcpy where whe should use memmove.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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