Re: strtoul etc.

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

"Edwards, Phil" <pedwards@ball.com> writes:

> To put it bluntly, does it matter?

Yes, otherwise we wouldn't get requests to speed up the compiler and
implement special hacks.

> Speaking only as an end user, libstdc++ is supposed to eventually be shipped
> with EGCS, right?

As an end-user you don't see the problems of continues compiling
during the development.

> EGCS just isn't something that people are going to be sitting at their
> desks watching build; it's something that people start compiling and then go
> home for the night, or work on something else.

You misunderstand the situation.  The functions will go into C++
template headers and the time for compiling applications using
libstdc++ will go up.  Not the compilation time of the compiler.

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