undefined reference to `memset'

[Scott Long]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> writes:
> 
>>I wondered if it might be because of something like -O2 (don't do that) 
> 
> 
> Peter, stop that.  The kernel builds and runs fine with -O2, and has
> for a long time.
> 
> DES

No it doesn't.  See the gymnastics that Bill Paul had to do recently in
the iee80211 code to get around the insane inlining that gcc does with
-O2.  I'm not saying that gcc produces incorrect code, but I am saying
that there is very strong evidence that it produces code that is
incompatible with the restrictions inherent to the kernel, mainly that
stack space is not infinite.

Scott