[Click] strcpy

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Mon May 3 23:22:57 EDT 2004


Hi Panos,

Unfortunately I can't remember the answer to your question.  My guess is there 
were linking problems without that patch.  I now use varieties of gcc 3.x to 
compile Click and the kernel, so.

Eddie


Panos wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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