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On 7/3/18 8:26 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>> "As far as I can tell" needs to be a bit stronger,
>>
>> Agreed. But before doing work we should first make sure that the work
>> will be productive.
>>
> 
> Xstr and most are best thought of as a final pass of the old pcc compiler.
> This functionality moved into gcc before the egcs split back in the 90s.
> The compiler has done this work for two decades now. Nobody uses it, or
> needs it today.
> 
> Unlike tip or cu, nobody at all uses these.

Agreed, these tools are quite obscure and I don't think _FreeBSD_ has ever
used them.

-- 
John Baldwin