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[4/5] sparc32: return destination pointer on return from memcpy

Message ID 1318335487-25506-5-git-send-email-konrad@gaisler.com
State Superseded
Delegated to: David Miller
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Konrad Eisele Oct. 11, 2011, 12:18 p.m. UTC
Gcc can optimize constant strcpy to a memcpy call. However
the return value of strcpy is used in KGDB. Return the standard return
value instead of 0

Signed-off-by: Konrad Eisele <konrad@gaisler.com>
---
 arch/sparc/lib/memcpy.S |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/memcpy.S b/arch/sparc/lib/memcpy.S
index 34fe657..835014b 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/lib/memcpy.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/lib/memcpy.S
@@ -19,12 +19,8 @@  x:
 #undef FASTER_NONALIGNED
 #define FASTER_ALIGNED
 
-/* In kernel these functions don't return a value.
- * One should use macros in asm/string.h for that purpose.
- * We return 0, so that bugs are more apparent.
- */
-#define SETUP_RETL
-#define RETL_INSN	clr	%o0
+#define SETUP_RETL	mov	%o0, %g6
+#define RETL_INSN	mov	%g6, %o0
 
 #else