proposal to start merging some source files in libbb/

[Paul Fox]

 > months back.  it seems that there's just too many trivial source files
 > in libbb/, and some of them could be merged and be even more
 > meaningful afterwards.
 > 
 >   as a trivial example,
 > 
 > 	create_icmp_socket.c
 > 	create_icmp6_socket.c
 > 
 > those files each define a single function, and have common includes,

is it not it true that one can build a busybox that only needs one
of these?  if so, won't combining them in a single .o cause them
both to be pulled in all the time?

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com