Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:19:09PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The problem is that at least some gcc versions would historically generate
> calls to "bcopy" on alpha for structure assignments. Maybe it doesn't any
> more, and no such old gcc versions exist any more, but who knows?

We're building with -ffreestanding now, so gcc isn't allowed to emit
any calls to standard library functions.

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