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 :-- :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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