Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 07:06:57 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: ecameron@bsd.uchicago.edu (Erik Cameron) Cc: eivind@yes.no, eddy@ISI.EDU, paipai@tin.it, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What we need Message-ID: <199811262006.HAA16072@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981126131454.A5740@bsd.uchicago.edu> from Erik Cameron at "Nov 26, 98 01:14:54 pm"
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Erik Cameron wrote: > > The real problem I've found with this is is the (relatively) large > amount of assembly code involved in building libc; libc being the > first thing to work on, IMHO. There are actually only a few (simple?) bits of assembly code that libc requires. A lot of the assembly code in libc on i386 is for performance, but there are C equivalents that are used if the assembly code is not available. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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