Re: m68k: main.c:(.init.text+0x730): undefined reference to `strlen'

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 06:48:27 EST


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > My first guess is gcc is turning sizeof() into strlen() again.
> >
> > Definitely not. sizeof is a compile-time constant, strlen is not. More
> > likely the strlen call is embedded in the expansion of strncat.
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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>
> I've missed to add
>
> #include <linux/string.h>
>
> sorry, will make the patch today evening (or maybe someone could
> make it). Thanks for report!
>

hmm, string.h is aready there, so there are two reason for fail I could
imagine at first glance: or gcc does something strange, or the problem
with linking
string.o. Will check it.
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