aux-syscalls change

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Sep 27 21:54:00 GMT 2007


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



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