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[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>> MFC revision 196269:
>> Fix misalignment in nvpair_native_embedded() caused by the compiler
>> replacing the bzero().
>
> How can it replace bzero() with -ffreestanding, which implies - 
> fbuiltin
> and guarantees that should be stronger not to use library functions?
> (gcc.info is poorly worded, so the stronger guarantees are actually
> weaker.)

-ffreestanding applies to the kernel only. This code is shared
between kernel and userspace and the misalignment is in userspace.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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