PATCH: Add strtoul in syscall table

Hi everybody,

The following patch adds the strtoul entry in the syscall table. This function is
very usefull for analyzing the command line arguments in standalone applications.

CHANGELOG:
* Patch by Pierre Aubert , 09 Dec 2002
Add strtoul in syscall table.

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Why do you think this is necessary?

simple_strtoul() is part of the generic library (implemented in lib_generic/vsprintf.c). Any standalone application that needs this function can simply link against this library, so I don;t see the benefit from calling this through the syscall interface.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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I've tried to link my standalone application againt the libgeneric library. I've got a lot
of undefined references (to printf, putc, udelay, do_reset) during the link because the
function simple_strtoul is in the file vsprintf.c which contains other functions (panic, sprintf, ...).
If we want to use this function in a standalone application, we need to separate the
vsprintf.c in several pieces. What is the best solution ?

Best regards