[BusyBox] tail: dprintf [PATCH]

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 07 May 2005 12:08 pm, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> > You're right, dprintf(STDOUT_FILENO,...) is a pointless obfuscation of a
> > normal printf.
>
> Except that dprintf doesn't go through stdio buffering and you've
> replaced one 3-arg function call with a 2-arg function call, a 1 arg
> function call, and an additional conditional.
>
> What was the change in the generated code size?
>
> Manuel

Sigh.  Went through the patch backlong, found a nice small patch that seemed 
to do something obvious and that nobody objected to for a month,  And you're 
right, I forgot about the added flush.  The second function call would indeed 
make it bigger...

Reverted.

Rob