[openbeos] Re: Kernel status (POSIX)

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:41:00 -0600 (CST)


> yet not impact portability whatsoever, since there's still the C 
> functions available
> for new ports until whatever time they choose to write the optimized 
> version, or not. :)

And this is the key. Write whatever you please in assembly, *as long as
* there is a C fallback. Of course, some things have to be done in 
assembler in the kernel, and use it for that, but always provide a 
fallback everywhere else.
-Nathan

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