Re: [x86 setup 16/33] String-handling functions for the new x86 setupcode.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> Nope.  The builtins not only vary between gcc versions, but they also
>> have a nasty tendency to generate calls to library functions, sometimes
>> libgcc functions.  Hence -ffreestanding.
> 
> -ffreestanding will still generate calls to libgcc functions.
> -ffreestanding doesn't disable _all_ of the C library, either.
> 

No, it doesn't, but it does inhibit builtin functions, and so provides a
bit more ABI stability.

	-hpa
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