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Re: Dead code (was: Re: Good numbers from Ritter's new string allocator)
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2001, Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> wrote:
>
> > So: do you think it would be feasible for you to contribute to the
> > project?
>
> I've just given it a look, and I'm afraid I foresee some
> difficulties.
>
> First of all, since this is code in libstdc++, we can't just link
> libiberty in, because there are licensing issues that might have to be
> resolved. We'd probably be better off just compiling in this
> particular module of libiberty along with libstdc++. And we should
> probably use the C compiler to compile that, in order to avoid issues
> such as getpagesize() not being declared.
>
> What I'd recomment is to add a new C source file to libstdc++ with
> contents such as:
[snip]
Thank you very much!
This is indeed a very concrete and detailed plan to guide our work.
I hope to begin working full time on this issue in a few days.
Cheers,
Paolo.