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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Conflicting declarations for ffs()
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> * De: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [ Data: 2002-10-20 ]
> 	[ Subjecte: Re: Conflicting declarations for ffs() ]
> > BSD/OS arranges kernel-only MD headers better by not putting them in
> > <machine>.  This also inhibits them being abused in MI code.
>
> What do they do, MACHINE_ARCH/MACHINE_ARCH/header.h  and pull it in
> via <MACHINE_ARCH/header.h>?  This is a good way to hide things, and

Yes, at least in an old version (4.1).

> is probably an area which won't be exposed (which is correct) in any
> way in FreeBSD, in the near future, as there's no real need...

<machine> should export anything except MD implementations of MI
interfaces, so it shouldn't have anything that is purely MD.

Bruce


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