06 May, 2005

2 commits

  • this clarifies the documentation on the behavier of strncpy().

    Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    walter harms
     
  • In include/asm-x86_64/string.h there are such comments:

    /* Use C out of line version for memcmp */
    #define memcmp __builtin_memcmp
    int memcmp(const void * cs,const void * ct,size_t count);

    This would mean that if the compiler does not decide to use __builtin_memcmp,
    it emits a call to memcmp to be satisfied by the C out-of-line version in
    lib/string.c. What happens is that after preprocessing, in lib/string.i you
    may find the definition of "__builtin_strcmp".

    Actually, by accident, in the object you will find the definition of strcmp
    and such (maybe a trick intended to redirect calls to __builtin_memcmp to the
    default memcmp when the definition is not expanded); however, this particular
    case is not a documented feature as far as I can see.

    Also, the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not work, so it's duplicated in the arch.

    I simply added some #undef to lib/string.c and removed the (now duplicated)
    exports in x86-64 and UML/x86_64 subarchs (the second ones are introduced by
    another patch I just posted for -mm).

    Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    CC: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds