Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

From: jtv (jtv@xs4all.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 19:20:04 EST


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.

Thank you for taking it all and putting it in a nutshell.

Jeroen

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