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From: nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Confusion with 1.3 to 1.5 upgrade
Summary: Perf.s doesn't belong in the library
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Date: 1 Nov 90 02:36:21 GMT
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In article <9010301816.AA03569@stehekin.boeing.com> rnews@qut.edu.au writes:
>In article <19058.2722ac99@qut.edu.au> you write:
>>Are the lists of object files in Glen Overby's Upgrade Tutorial (Glen.O.tute)
>>Appendix C and D difinitive ? I ask this because my libc.a file does not
>>contain an object called 'perf.s'; but it does have one called 'error.s'.
>>...
>I'll try.  :-)  
>
>The official 1.5.10 crc list has the file "perf.c" in lib/string.  Since it's
>in lib, I presume that it goes in libc.a.  (My sources and my libc.a are at
>home, so I can't tell you if perf.s is actually in my library.)  I find
>no file called either "error.c" or "error.s" in the 1.5.10 crc list.

As the author of the string routines and of lib/string/perf.c, let me
assure you that perf.s does not belong in the library.  Perf.c is a
C program that measures the improvement in the string function calls
when the assembly language routines are used in place of the C routines.
The object code does not belong in libc.a.

Norbert