On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:07:37PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > But Umm... Honestly, this solution looks pretty wired to me. > > When the compiler decides to replace code by a call to some function, > shouldn't it make sure not to replace _all_ occurences of such code (and thus > the final implementation of it) also? That would be ideal of course, but how can the compiler know? > > This is just one of those gotchas that you have to be aware of when > > implementing the standard library. > > I am not implementing the standard library. I am just trying to get rid of > it. I need just a couple of functions from the stdlib, and I was happy with > simple/lightwight re-implementations of those functions for decades. memset is a reserved name. If you use it you are implementing part of the standard library (except when using -ffreestanding, but GCC has an exception there). Segher
