>>143The symbol table does not matter too much in statically linked applications (and that's what's supposed to happen)
Oh
$deity... :facepalm:
So you do all that work of extracting the function to avoid "duplicate code"... just so the compiler can put it back the way it should've been written in the first place!? WTF.
I can understand the motivation to do that manually to
optimize the code
It's about optimising for efficiency
and readability. By extracting that function you have required the reader to know what that function does... when she finds out, it happens to be something inanely trivial... and you're doing it in one of the most trivial of utilities.
premature optimizations
You're making premature pessimisations instead.
broken and unmaintainable, chaotic code (look at ACU).
Using big words like "unmaintainable" and "chaotic" does not help your argument. The ACU echo does not require anyone with familiarity with the POSIX interface to read more than a single file to figure out what it does.
Where?
Figure it out yourself if you think you're so smart.