Re: toolchain/35964 (Setting SHAREDSTRINGS=yes causes build to fail)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/35964; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/35964 (Setting SHAREDSTRINGS=yes causes build to fail)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 23:42:28 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 24 May 2023 13:12:35 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost
     Message-ID:  <20230524131235.D6DD81A9239%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   | I also removed xstr and mkstr, since they only made sense for PDP-11
   | and weren't relevant even for VAX, and again, nothing in tree used them.
 
 For xstr that's wrong - xstr wasn't added until 3BSD, which was the VAX
 (first VAX) version of BSD.   While it might perhaps have had minor
 benefits for pdp-11's, it was still loading strings into memory, which
 is what they were short of (that is, address space, not necessarily
 actual RAM).
 
 kre