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>