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[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> I don't care about the microoptimization if it's actually
> problematic in some way.  I just don't see why calling a function
> that jumps to the address of a pointer is aesthetically better
> than calling the pointer in the first place.

Mostly because none of the other platforms do it that way, so we had
to special-case i386 in <sys/systm.h> which is supposed to be MI.

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