equating symbols to undefined

[Jan Beulich]

>>> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> 12.10.05 18:06:45 >>>
>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:31:01PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> 
>> I want to be able to have a header file that defines an alias
memcpy
>> should resolve to (because there is no way I could tell gcc to not
call
>> memcpy when copying large compound objects), which can be included
by
>> both consumers and producer of the replacement definition, without
the
>> producer (because of inclusion of the header file) providing a
global
>> definition for memcpy.
>> 
>> Similarly, I want to be able to a header file that defines an
alias,
>> say, __divdi3 should resolve to (because there is no way I could
tell
>> gcc to not call __divdi3 when dividing 64-bit integers on a 32-bit
>> target), which can be included by both consumers and producer of
the
>> replacement definition, without the producer (because of inclusion
of
>> the header file) providing a global definition for __divdi3 (because
the
>> policy in the rest of the component - linux kernel - is to not have
such
>> a function available).
>> 
>
>Then please show me a testcase where I can do
>
># make
>
>and see the failure.

Here we go: just 'make' results in two calls to copymem (as logged to
the console), whereas 'make DEFINES=LOCAL' (with an older assembler used
by the compiler) results in just one call (as intended).

Jan