Hi Andreas,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:56 AM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mär 11 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 10:42 PM Finn Thain <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> No, the link fails because the compiler still emits some references to
> >> strlen().
> >
> > Despite -ffreestanding?!?
>
> *Because* of -ffreestanding. Without that, strlen would be recognized
> and turned into __builtin_strlen.
Now I'm confused: if we have a static inline or #define for strlen(), why
would the compiler still emit references to the strlen() symbol?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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