Re: [patch 1/1] x86_64: make string func definition work as intended

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote:
>
> In include/asm-x86_64/string.h there are such comments:
> 
>  /* Use C out of line version for memcmp */ 
>  #define memcmp __builtin_memcmp
>  int memcmp(const void * cs,const void * ct,size_t count);
> 
>  This would mean that if the compiler does not decide to use __builtin_memcmp,
>  it emits a call to memcmp to be satisfied by the C out-of-line version in
>  lib/string.c. What happens is that after preprocessing, in lib/string.i you
>  may find the definition of "__builtin_strcmp".
> 
>  Actually, by accident, in the object you will find the definition of
>  strcmp and such (maybe a trick intended to redirect calls to __builtin_memcmp
>  to the default memcmp when the definition is not expanded); however, this
>  particular case is not a documented feature as far as I can see.
> 
>  Also, the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not work, so it's duplicated in the arch.

This breaks the x86 build.  I guess the below is right.

You wanna check other architectures please?


diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c~x86_64-make-string-func-definition-work-as-intended-fix arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c~x86_64-make-string-func-definition-work-as-intended-fix	2005-05-03 00:16:36.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c	2005-05-03 00:16:44.000000000 -0700
@@ -169,10 +169,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_nmi_callback);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unset_nmi_callback);
 
-#undef memcmp
-extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcmp);
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_die_notifier);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_atomic_dec_and_lock);
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