Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:38:45 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The whole libc thing. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102152135350.9729-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200102150903.f1F93rW62243@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > Green's solution of stealing a pointer and using that to "grow" FILE. > This would allow old binaris to keep working at the cost of binary > compatibility. There's a few extra indirections in this case, you'll > likely not be able to measure that performance loss. But it will work > with the case above and most of the others we threw at it. Pointers to FILEs can be converted to pointers extensions of FILEs using a hash lookup. This takes slightly more than a few indirections, but it doesn't cost binary compatibilty. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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