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To: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>
Subject: Re: Removing __P() (was Re: whois(1) patch) 
Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:08:30 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:13:34 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <B73D7C8E.BF2%mike@q9media.com> Mike Barcroft writes:
: Does anyone have any objections to removing __P() and converting prototypes
: to ANSI C, as part of binary cleaning up/auditing?

So long as it is only on the binaries and not the header
(/usr/include) files.

Make sure that you convert

int foo __P((xxx))

to

int foo(xxx)

(Note no space).

Warner

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