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

From: Segher Boessenkool
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 16:10:33 EST


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.


Segher

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