[PATCH] remove IN_STRING_C

IN_STRING_C was an i386-specific hack by Andi Kleen to provide out-of-line
versions of some lib/string.c functions that aren't directly used on i386
(because there are inline assembly versions).

This can cause problems if gcc chooses to transparently replace a call to one
string function with a call to another string function (the example Andi gave
was a replacement of a sprintf call with a strcpy call) which generates a
function call to the replacement function.

The problems observed by Andi only occur in recent kernels without
-fno-unit-at-a-time.

With -ffreestanding it can't even cause any problems in case we'd one day drop
the -fno-unit-at-a-time since gcc mustn't assume in a freestanding environment
that all standard C library functions are available.

The effect of this patch is a small space saving in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index c1b1b58747fe0e..4820e317f39b0e 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
  * -  Kissed strtok() goodbye
  */
 
-#define IN_STRING_C 1
- 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>