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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:14:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: macro recommendation (Was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtol.3 strtol.c strtoll.c strtoq.c strtoul.3 strtoul.c strtoull.c strtouq.c) 
Message-ID:  <200109060014.f860Eup04096@earth.backplane.com>
References:   <20010905234646.9BBAF380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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:"David O'Brien" wrote:
:> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:05:34PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
:> > :Please!  I already have a prototype in works.  I'm sure there are other
:> > :things for people to work on.
:> > 
:> >     sys/cdefs.h ?  I think it's perfect, lets use it... I don't understand
:> >     why you haven't instrumented all the library source files already,
:> >     though, or at least more then have been,
:> 
:> I have been working out the style issues with BDE for several months.
:> Also, if you want a truely portable usage, we cannot use __RCSID()
:> because too much NetBSD and vendor sources use it.  Peter's hack will not
:> work for all compilers.  I would have prefered a __FBSD() and __CSRG()
:> macro for the same reasons we switched to $FreeBSD$ from $Id$.  These
:> would have worked for all compilers, but I cannot complete with an effort
:> backed by Peter.
:
:I dont care if it's called __FRED().  My hack will work for all
:compilers, in *.c files.  It only gets hairy if you try and add them to
:headers (probably a bad idea anyway).
:
:Feel free to add __FOO(), __FBSD(), __GRANDMA() or whatever you like.  The
:tools are there, just pick a new prefix name.
:
:Cheers,
:-Peter
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:Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au

    David, if you choose the name and commit it I will commit adjustments
    to use to a library of your choice (or sub-module of libc of your choice)
    to get some momentum built up.  Maybe even more then one!

						-Matt

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