[PATCH] Improve performance of strstr

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Thu Oct 4 15:52:00 GMT 2018


On 2018-10-02 09:32, Craig Howland wrote:
> On 10/02/2018 08:40 AM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
>>> Did you really intend to delete the documentation information? (Seems like it
>>> must be by accident.)
>> Well I rewrote all of the file and keeping an old comment didn't seem
>> appropriate. I could easily add it back in if it is still useful.
> It's not simply a comment, it is used in the generation of documentation (e.g.
> make pdf), so, yes, definitely still useful and should/must be kept.  (The
> FUNCTION, INDEX, SYNOPSYS, DESCRIPTION, RETURNS, etc., headings are used to
> generate so-called chewout files (I have no idea why they are called that),
> *.def, which in turn are used to make the various-format (e.g. PDF) man
> pages/documents.)

Early src docs:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bfd/doc/chew.c;hb=HEAD
[in the hopes the ref may help others to remember about these and EL/IX docs]

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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