Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:08:40 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, <silby@silby.com>, <njl@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <20021115100434.O2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <200211142257.gAEMvdxX071776@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: MD> Why not create a mini-libc? No language-aware character conversions, MD> no efficient string or memory functions, no floating point. Just a basic MD> implementation of the core functionality required for stdio, malloc, MD> *printf(), string functions, and system calls (which will simply be MD> borrowed from libc), sufficient for simple binaries. It could be made MD> compatible with our standard includes (structural bloat != code bloat, MD> so who cares). The problem with this is that users needing the language support will be faced with having part of the base system utilities (those in /usr/bin) beeing language-aware and part (those in /bin) not. They will need to rebuild the system after they have installed it (and after twiddling with the configuration). This will be rather confusing. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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