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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: crt0.c
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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>> Because no one noticed that _getenv() existed when the locale bloat was
>> added.  The private _getenv() is to avoid linking in whatever bloat may
>> be attached to getenv() (there actually isn't much).  Similarly for all
>> ...

>BZZZT!!!   Wrong.

>The local functions, as well as the local syscall code is there so that
>it works before libc.so has been loaded.

Oops.  But we're talking about bloat in the static case.  This is moot
now that a separate scrt0.o (compiled without -DDYNAMIC) is used for
the static case.

Bruce