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

[Adrian Bunk - Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:30:59PM +0300]
| On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:28:24PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
| > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
| >
| > > Or replace all the strlen stuff in include/asm-m68k/string.h with a
| >
| > I don't think the strlen macros has any influence in this case (it
| > already uses __builtin_strlen anyway).
|
| The problem is that it sets __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN, and therefore the
| out-of-line function in lib/string.c is not built.
|
| That breaks when gcc replaces a call to a different function with a call
| to strlen().
|
| > I'd rather guess that gcc is
| > expanding strncat internally to something involving strlen with
| > non-constant argument,
|
| We agree on this one.
|
| > although I cannot see how that can happen from a
| > quick look.
|
| It isn't the first time we have these problems in the kernel...
|
| > Andreas.
|
| cu
| Adrian
|
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|

Adrian, I've just sent the updated patch, and accidentally forget
to CC you - please take a look on http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/14/267

- Cyrill -
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