Re: [PATCH/RFC] m68k: Uninline strchr()

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Sun Jan 09 2011 - 15:59:04 EST


On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 19:42 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Some versions of gcc replace calls to strstr() with single-character
> "needle" string parameters by calls to strchr() behind our back.
>
> If strchr() is defined as an inline function, this causes linking errors
> like
>
> ERROR: "strchr" [drivers/target/target_core_mod.ko] undefined!
>
> As m68k is the only architecture that has an inline strchr() and this
> inline version is not an optimized asm version, uninline strchr() and use
> the standard out-of-line C version in lib/string.c instead.
>
> This also decreases the defconfig/allmodconfig kernel image sizes by a few
> hundred bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Geert,

Thanks for taking the time to fix this up in m68k code. As m68k is one
of the last architectures that target code has yet to run on, I am
excited to see this finally happen. ;)

Best Regards,

Reviewed-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h
> index 2936dda..65b1312 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h
> @@ -81,18 +81,6 @@ static inline char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n)
> strcpy(__d + strlen(__d), (s)); \
> })
>
> -#define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCHR
> -static inline char *strchr(const char *s, int c)
> -{
> - char sc, ch = c;
> -
> - for (; (sc = *s++) != ch; ) {
> - if (!sc)
> - return NULL;
> - }
> - return (char *)s - 1;
> -}
> -
> #ifndef CONFIG_COLDFIRE
> #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP
> static inline int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct)

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