undefined reference to `memset'

[David O'Brien]

Please don't top-post -- it destroys context.  [Format recovered]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:46:41PM -0800, Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:05:17PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-Mar-23 13:48:04 -0800, Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> > > >If any kernel module has the following, or a similar line in it:
> > > >-----
> > > >char x[100] = {0};
> > > >-----
> > > >building of the GENERIC kernel on FreeBSD 5 -STABLE for amd64
> > > >as of 03/19/05, fails with the following message at the 
> > time of linking:
> > > >"undefined reference to `memset'".
> > > >
> > > >The same problem is not seen on i386.
> > > >
> > > >The problem goes away if the above line is changed to:
> > > >-----
> > > >char x[100];
> > > >memset(x, 0, 100);
> > > >-----
> > > 
> > > Can you post a complete (compilable) example please.
> > 
> > Vinod can you please post a complete compilable example?
> > It is impossible to get anything done about your issue without stand
> > alone test code.
> Ok, make sure you have 'device twa' in your kernel configuration
> file, and apply these patches to /sys/dev/twa/twa.c.
> This patch causes the problem:

"stand alone" means a single foo.c file that shows the problem you want
fixed.
I cannot submit a GCC bug report with a tarball of the entire FreeBSD
kernel.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)