[Click] strcpy

[Panos]

The Linux kernel patch against 2.4.21 for include/asm-i386/string.h
encloses the inline definition of strcpy with

#if __GNUC__ > 2 || __GNUC_MINOR__ != 96 || !defined(CLICK_LINUXMODULE)
#endif

which exposes strcpy to the Linux kernel source but not to the click module.
What was the problem that required this gcc-2.96-specific patch?

I am curious whether this might have been fixed by a more recent rev
of gcc 2.96 (RedHat did patch the compiler).

Panos