[BusyBox] Re: Fix for bug #1015

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Jul 04, 2000 at 08:16:46PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Bug #1015 notes that the tr present in busybox does not recognize the
> standard escape sequences.  Since the code to process them is already
> present in echo.c, I've split it into a separate function in utility.c.
> The net result on my machine (a pentium) is an overall savings of
> approximately 30 bytes for echo, and 2 bytes for tr.  Unfortunately,
> this requires that pointer variables used to traverse argv[i] in both
> programs cannot be declared with the register keyword.
> 
> As a side note, I tried writing process_escape_sequence to use returns
> for each case, but this ended up being larger.
> 
> Matt

Excellent.  Applied.  If folks could test this, I would be glad to
be able to close this bug.
    http://bugs.lineo.com/db/10/1015.html

 -Erik

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