> > additionally, the compiler's prototypes do not necessarily match the
> > kernel's prototypes, and that may not be an error. 
> 
> It is an error. 
> 
> I understand that Technical Corrigendum 2, an official amendment to
> the C standard, will state that all identifiers reserved by a hosted
> implementation are also reserved for a freestanding implementation.
> Thus is a freestanding implementation is going to have a str* or mem*
> functions, they have to be identical to those found in the C library.

Well, I don't have this standard, but what about malloc?
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