xstr, mkstr

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> On 7/3/18 8:26 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> "As far as I can tell" needs to be a bit stronger,
> >>
> >> Agreed. But before doing work we should first make sure that the work
> >> will be productive.
> >>
> > 
> > Xstr and most are best thought of as a final pass of the old pcc compiler.
> > This functionality moved into gcc before the egcs split back in the 90s.
> > The compiler has done this work for two decades now. Nobody uses it, or
> > needs it today.
> > 
> > Unlike tip or cu, nobody at all uses these.
> 
> Agreed, these tools are quite obscure and I don't think _FreeBSD_ has ever
> used them.

I thought someone already pointed out places in the src tree
that had references to them, though they may be commented out.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org