Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 19:16:05 EST

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:07:39PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:01:18PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Yes, but doesn't -ffreestanding imply that gcc _can't_ assume this is
> > the standard library...
>
> Ignore strcpy. Yes, that's what visibly causing a failure here,
> but the bug is in the funny pointer arithmetic. Leave that in
> there and the compiler _will_ bite your ass sooner or later.

Er, which part of the 'funny pointer arithmetic' ? I take it you aren't
a fan of the 'change to
memcpy(namep,RELOC("linux,phandle"),sizeof("linux,phandle"));' fix.
We need to do funny things here, and thus need a way to tell gcc to just
do what we're saying.

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