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
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