On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:42:51PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: > Is it possible to do this cleanly and without making us a large mess and > making us glibc dependent? Ok, I think that I just answered my own > question. Portability is sacrificed if we lock ourselves to the glibc > functions. It would certianly work, but that isn't the only issue. > Kevin made the argument that somebody should write the asm themselves if > they were that worried about it.
No, gnumach also uses the string functions from glibc and it works fine. I think this can be implemented without making us glibc dependent and making a mess. We could also copy over the source files, but the problem with that is we've to do updates manually. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
