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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 17:47:58 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Why add stubs to network/ether.c?
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:27:20PM -0700, Isaac wrote:
> Yes, I know this is a pretty small issue.
> But commit fbcd8204 (add stubs for additional legacy ether.h functions)
> is likely to bloat a full static busybox by a few bytes, for no additional
> gain. Could stubs like these be kept separate from functional code?
Well the tradeoff is between making the .a file significantly larger
for each .o file we add, and making binaries a couple bytes larger.
I'm not sure what the right decision is here. We could try to assemble
lots of stubs together in one file I suppose. I'm open to ideas on
what ppl think is best.
Rich
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