Re: [OT] fputc vs putc Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
9 Dec 2001 01:27:51 -0800


Followup to: <m1d71pw51p.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> fputc is a function putc is a macro because the overhead of a function call
> in writing a character has always been a problem...
>

putc() is frequently defined as

#define putc(__C) fputc((__C), stdout)

... or some equivalent; I think the best way to say it's that it's a
shorthand.

-hpa

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