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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Why add stubs to network/ether.c?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 17:47:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702214758.GH29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702202720.GA12559@newbook>

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:27:20PM -0700, Isaac wrote:
> Yes, I know this is a pretty small issue.
> But commit fbcd8204 (add stubs for additional legacy ether.h functions)
> is likely to bloat a full static busybox by a few bytes, for no additional
> gain.  Could stubs like these be kept separate from functional code?

Well the tradeoff is between making the .a file significantly larger
for each .o file we add, and making binaries a couple bytes larger.
I'm not sure what the right decision is here. We could try to assemble
lots of stubs together in one file I suppose. I'm open to ideas on
what ppl think is best.

Rich


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-02 20:27 Isaac
2013-07-02 21:47 ` Rich Felker [this message]

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