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Subject: Re: Kernel Module - GCC Requires memmove
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On 2009-01-22 02:14, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> I vaguely recall Linux having a policy that compiling the kernel without 
> optimization was not supported, possibly because of situations like this.

No, Linux has its own implementations of mem{cmp,cpy,move,set}, both in
fallback C versions, and optimized versions for several arches.

Compiling Linux without optimization will fail at the linking stage, due
to extern inline functions in header files, without implementation in
separate .c files.