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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Why the "-Dindex=strchr" in the 2.10.2 Makefile?
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 10:35:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:35:14 1984
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I have asked this same question several times before, and have never
gotten an adequate answer.

Given that index() and rindex() are defined in funcs.c, what is the
point of the "-Dindex=strchr" in the USG makefile?  The code would
compile and run just fine without it, and either way it uses the
version in funcs.c rather than the (presumably faster) ones in the
C library.