Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 18:56:09 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <TkP2eWmGhU@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199510161541.BAA00990@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Tue, 17 Oct 1995 01:41:50 %2B1000 References: <199510161541.BAA00990@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199510161541.BAA00990@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
writes:
>>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().
Ok, it seems your idea to have two startup_locale stubs is useful.
I think before implementing it we need to cleanup our libc (as
well as other libraries too) to _not_ use ctype calls in pure-ASCII
case and separate functions wich uses them from ones which not uses.
It can takes much time...
--
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