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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> We're building with -ffreestanding now, so gcc isn't allowed to emit
> any calls to standard library functions.

Bzzt. It still emits calls to libgcc. 

It cannot _not_ do so. There are simply operations that gcc doesn't 
generate native code for, ie divides on certain architectures etc.

And that very much includes bcopy/memcpy on most architectures.

		Linus
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