Auditing the menuconfig help entries.

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 25 August 2008 01:46:44 you wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_GENERIC_OPT
>>> UCLIBC_HAS_STRING_ARCH_OPT
>>>
>>>  Um, am I supposed to pick one?  Both are enabled by default, and both
>>> say they should be Y.  Do both get used at the same time by the same
>>> arch?
>>
>> When both are Y, I think the latter overrides the former for string
>> functions where arch optimized versions exist, but reverts to the generic
>> optimized functions where they don't.
>
> Should one be indented under the other, then...?  (The current 
> relationship between them is not at all obvious.  I'm happy to update 
> the docs and/or the config entries, but that involves knowing what they 
> should say...)

Honestly, I'm not really sure. They are probably independent; if you 
enable the latter you would get arch-specific optimized functions where 
they exist, and the unoptimized functions otherwise. Not terribly useful 
and probably not what most people want, but not illegal by any means.

I guess it's really the help texts that should be clearer on how it works.

/Ricard
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