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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:15:22 -0700 (MST)
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> BTW, this hack adds 24K to the size of a minimal statically linked
> program `main() {}' and defeats the point of most of the specially named
> routines in crt0.c.  E.g., there is a special version of getenv() named
> _getenv() to avoid the namespace pollution and bloat from getenv(), but
> the hack calls getenv() anyway; there are special versions of read() and
> write(), but _startup_setlocale() references things in stdio that reference
> read() and write().

Can we say "probable source of BSDI incompatability"?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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