Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 01:41:50 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, kaleb@x.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510161541.BAA00990@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>isspace() is purity killer. >>Almost everything references printf so 2) applies to almost everything. >>Thus we have about 55 * 20K of bloat in [s]bin mainly for the stupid >>reason that a function that is almost never called (strtod()) needs to >>know what a space is. >vfprintf module calls too many functions besides dtoa, they are >fflush, swsetup, sfvwrite, abort, etc. I am not shure that any of them >not calls ctype functions indirectly additionly. They don't. vfscanf() calls __dtoa() but is not used nearly as much as vfprintf(). Bruce
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