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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kaleb@x.org
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>isspace() is purity killer.

>>Almost everything references printf so 2) applies to almost everything.
>>Thus we have about 55 * 20K of bloat in [s]bin mainly for the stupid
>>reason that a function that is almost never called (strtod()) needs to
>>know what a space is.

>vfprintf module calls too many functions besides dtoa, they are
>fflush, swsetup, sfvwrite, abort, etc. I am not shure that any of them
>not calls ctype functions indirectly additionly.

They don't.  vfscanf() calls __dtoa() but is not used nearly as much as
vfprintf().

Bruce