>On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:21:46 -0500 >Chris Staub <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/15/2013 10:14 PM, Wolf, Robert (ext) wrote: > > A quick question. > > > > How can I know what to do without the book? > > > > For example, the book says this: sed -i -e 's/static __m128i/inline > > &/' sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strstr.c > > > > How would I know that this has to be done if I had no book? > > > > If (for any reason) the book is not updated any longer, what then? > > Probably the same way that the book's developers found that > information in the first place - by reading mailing lists for > GCC/Glibc/Binutils and other essential packages, and by a lot of > experimenting by using it and seeing what happens.
Right. Basically, you do it one way, see that it either doesn't work or works really bad, you backtrack and find the solution after some time. But in this particular case - making a random function inline - not doing it will probably not have any significant effect. -- You don't need an AI for a robot uprising. Humans will do just fine. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
