Re: YAJKHT (Yet a Junior kernel hacker task)

1999-11-03 Thread Bruce Evans
> About the only place which is sacred is the gdb-stubs, please be > aware that particular isolation requirements apply to that code > which make it un-smart to rely on library functions. (that is why > the gdb-stubs even come with their own strlen(3) & strcat(3) The same applies to ddb and ever

YAJKHT (Yet a Junior kernel hacker task)

1999-11-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Now that we have grudingly accepted the existence of the ctype macros (isdigit(3) and friends) along with strto{u}[ql](3) into the kernel, there are a considerable number of places where they could be used to make code more readable. Needless to say you need to *test* your patches before you sen