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From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: binary size changes from 0.1.0
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:52:23 +0300
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> One common trick is to not keep the list of error messages in memory at all, 
> but to keep them in a file on disk. When perror() is called, the file is 
> opened, read until the right error message is found, and that one used...

I think ELKS's libc does that... at least it used to do...

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Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>