From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:22:12 -0600

Re: Kgicon & the sysctl stuff

Sengan Baring-Gould wrote:

> > Well, I may now happily announce that fbcon-kgi.c already uses
> > memset() in places that I have not touched, and it doesn't cause
> > any unresolved symbols for me! This makes the problem even more
> > confusing...
>
> Yes... noticed.
>
> > You haven't enabled module-versioning when you compiled your kernel,
> > have you?
>
> No. # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
>
> > Anyway I have changed the problematic code now, does this version
> > work for you?
>
> In the Media GX compile, I get this when I try ./insert
>
> kgicon.o: unresoved symbol memset

Do you think this could be an optimization switch thing (a la replace memset
by rep stos which is not happening because of the -O2 switch on stock gcc?)
Could you do a egcs -S (all the switches you'd compile with) and see if memset

is replaced by rep stos or the like?

Thanks,

Sengan