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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.

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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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