Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:49:56 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap@amcc.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: undefined reference to `memset' Message-ID: <20050324214956.GA99087@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <IDVJ3H01.CW0@hadar.amcc.com> References: <IDVJ3H01.CW0@hadar.amcc.com>
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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@FreeBSD.org)
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