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Re: working with "good enough" functions


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: working with "good enough" functions
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:09:45 -0500
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On Thursday 08 January 2009 11:55:03 Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Thursday 08 January 2009 04:49:16 Paul Eggert wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
> >> > i explicitly pulled in the
> >> > printf-posix module because i want a posix implementation on crappy
> >> > systems. but i dont care if said systems have broken floating point
> >> > implementations since i dont use floating point in my code.
> >>
> >> If this happens often enough, perhaps gnulib should have a
> >> printf-posix-no-fp module that does what you want?
> >
> > i would certainly use it, but if i'm the only one expressing interest
> > thus far, then maybe it isnt a hot issue.
>
> I see that some *printf objects from gnulib are linked into builds even
> on glibc platforms.  If that would be fixed by using a module
> printf-posix-no-fp, I would use it.  (My projects rarely use
> float/double.)
>
> The code ends up in the *.a libraries, which sometimes is used to make
> size-based decisions which library is the smallest, so it would be nice
> to avoid this baggage.

on my setup, a few objects are still built by gnulib, but since they're in a 
.a and i dont actually use them, they dont get linked into the final image.  i 
dont worry about what's in the .a in that case since it doesnt matter.
-mike

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