Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: xstr, mkstr Message-ID: <201807031641.w63GfiIp039021@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <d9b57ab8-acde-8371-145d-12cb58f6efde@FreeBSD.org>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 7/3/18 8:26 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> "As far as I can tell" needs to be a bit stronger, > >> > >> Agreed. But before doing work we should first make sure that the work > >> will be productive. > >> > > > > Xstr and most are best thought of as a final pass of the old pcc compiler. > > This functionality moved into gcc before the egcs split back in the 90s. > > The compiler has done this work for two decades now. Nobody uses it, or > > needs it today. > > > > Unlike tip or cu, nobody at all uses these. > > Agreed, these tools are quite obscure and I don't think _FreeBSD_ has ever > used them. I thought someone already pointed out places in the src tree that had references to them, though they may be commented out. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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