On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:09:03AM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following patch is a faster implementation of the simple_strtoul
> function.
[snip]
Why not preserve the existing code for bases other than 8, 10, and 16?
Admittedly, the only other case that is likely to be used would be base
2, but surely there's only a penalty of a few dozen bytes for the
following code..
> - while (isxdigit(*cp) && (value = isdigit(*cp) ? *cp-'0' : (islower(*cp)
> - ? toupper(*cp) : *cp)-'A'+10) < base) {
> - result = result*base + value;
> - cp++;
> - }
Jeff
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