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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: funny strlen defines in sys/alpha/alpha/alpha-gdbstub.c
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On 2001-Jul-02 11:34:25 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>     130 #define strlen  gdb_strlen
>     131 #define strcpy  gdb_strcpy
>
>Is it really necessary to do this funny thing with the #defines?  I
>mean, why not replace the calls with gdb_XXX() ourselves and be done
>with it?

Alternatively, given the XXX comment, why not delete the local copies
of str{cpy,len}() and just usr the library versions?  The original
reason appears to be to avoid the possibility that str{cpy,len}() are
not re-entrant.  The FreeBSD ones _are_ re-entrant and it doesn't seem
likely that we will re-write them not to be re-entrant.

Peter

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