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aux-syscalls change
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- To: Martin Hunt <hunt at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:21:58 -0400
- Subject: aux-syscalls change
Hi -
I am a bit surprised by the subject patch (commit fd6324c). Amongst
its effects is to always include these lookup tables in a generated
object code, if any other part of aux_syscalls is being called.
Algorithmically, it replaces a linear sequence of script if/thens with
a C linear search.
What aspect of the previous code did you deem unacceptable? Why not
just use ordinary script-level lookup tables instead of yet more C
code?
- FChE