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Re: Moving xmalloc and xstrdup around

To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Subject: Re: Moving xmalloc and xstrdup around
From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Date: 29 Nov 1999 20:24:57 +0100
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <u87lj1ii4v.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <m3yabhm7sc.fsf@localhost.localnet>

>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Uli> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>> Currently xmalloc is compiled twice - once for locale and once for
>> catgets :-(.
>> 
>> What do you think of putting xmalloc and xstrdup into an extra
>> directory to clean this up a bit?

Uli> If there would be more and/or bigger files I would agree.  But why
Uli> making things more complicated for no obvious reason?

The reason is that soon xmalloc will be used three times - for locale,
catgets and ldconfig.  But if you prefer to have another vpath to get
xmalloc and xstrdup...  I hoped my patch would make thing clearer.

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de

References:
- Moving xmalloc and xstrdup around
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: Moving xmalloc and xstrdup around
  - From: Ulrich Drepper

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