From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: _Exit function [PATCH]
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:55:48 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <3DE6778F.108A69D1@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Nov 28, 2002 08:07:43 PM
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> > added to include/libc/stubs.h:
> > #define _Exit _exit
> > It would be a new use (abuse?) of libc/stubs.h
> 
> Yuck. 8)
> 
> We could just write the stub in assembler. There are a couple of functions
> like that already - stricmp assembler stub calls strcasecmp (or maybe
> vice-versa). Of course (ab)using include/libc/stubs.h would get this written
> automatically.

An alternative would be to copy/modify the current stub code and create 
a new libc/aliases.h - and have it do the same thing.  There are a bunch
of modules we could make go away ...

> I think I prefer the explicitly-written stub. Hmmm, maybe I should rewrite
> _Exit to use an assembler stub like stricmp/strcasecmp.

Why not have all of these automatically written?  Adding one line to a
file seems easier than adding a module and a line to a makefile.

Enough said, I'm going to go back to looking at documentation and DXEs...
What we have works fine, I'm just always looking for improvements.