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Re: [PATCH] Reduce code size of _REENT_INIT_PTR()


On 2013-04-26 03:43, Sebastian Huber wrote:
Use one memset() to initialize everything to zero.  Set non-zero fields
in a second step.  There is only a small runtime overhead, but the code
size is greatly reduced.  This change assumes the NULL pointer and '\0'
are encoded as zero bits.

This sounds like a candidate for PREFER_SIZE_OVER_SPEED, but AFAICS that would mean moving that definition out of configure.host and into sys/config.h.


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports


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