Re: Why doesn't memchr appear in ksyms?

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:54:13 -0700 Tom Dickson wrote:

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| According to
| http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/kdoc/kernel-api/r1708.html I should
| be able to use memchr in a module, however, when I try to load the
| module insmod complains that memchr is not available; a grep memchr
| /proc/ksyms shows that it doesn't exist.
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| Is there some special kernel option I have to set to enable it? memcpy
| and other mem* externs are there.
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| Thank you (for answering a simple question)
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| Kernel 2.4.26 on a Pentium 3 system

memchr() is compiled/built inline, not as an exported function.

If it's not working for you, maybe you aren't building with "-O2"
(gcc optimization level 2), which is needed for kernel builds.


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~Randy
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(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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