According to POSIX memmove and memcpy can actually be macros or whatever (IIRC). We'd better not play with those in code that uses libc's headers and is to be linked with libc. 2008-08-08 Lubomir Rintel * include/grub/misc.h: Surround memmove and memcpy prototypes with #ifndef GRUB_UTIL * kern/misc.c: Surround memmove, memcpy and memset prototypes with #ifndef GRUB_UTIL Index: kern/misc.c =================================================================== --- kern/misc.c (revision 1797) +++ kern/misc.c (working copy) @@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ return dest; } +#ifdef GRUB_UTIL +#include +#else void *memmove (void *dest, const void *src, grub_size_t n) __attribute__ ((alias ("grub_memmove"))); /* GCC emits references to memcpy() for struct copies etc. */ void *memcpy (void *dest, const void *src, grub_size_t n) __attribute__ ((alias ("grub_memmove"))); +#endif char * grub_strcpy (char *dest, const char *src) @@ -514,8 +518,10 @@ return s; } +#ifndef GRUB_UTIL void *memset (void *s, int c, grub_size_t n) __attribute__ ((alias ("grub_memset"))); +#endif grub_size_t grub_strlen (const char *s) Index: include/grub/misc.h =================================================================== --- include/grub/misc.h (revision 1797) +++ include/grub/misc.h (working copy) @@ -39,8 +39,12 @@ char *EXPORT_FUNC(grub_strncat) (char *dest, const char *src, int c); /* Prototypes for aliases. */ +#ifdef GRUB_UTIL +#include +#else void *EXPORT_FUNC(memmove) (void *dest, const void *src, grub_size_t n); void *EXPORT_FUNC(memcpy) (void *dest, const void *src, grub_size_t n); +#endif int EXPORT_FUNC(grub_memcmp) (const void *s1, const void *s2, grub_size_t n); int EXPORT_FUNC(grub_strcmp) (const char *s1, const char *s2);