Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 07:10:58 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include endian.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104150708130.28086-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200104142042.f3EKg5v00966@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Mark Murray wrote: > markm 2001/04/14 13:42:04 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/i386/include endian.h > Log: > Back out wrapping the asm ... ; bits in #ifndef lint macros. There > are some good reasons for not doing this, even if the linting of > the code breaks. > > 1) If lint were ever to understand the stuff inside the macros, > that would break the checks. > > 2) There are ways to use __GNUC__ to exclude overly specific > code. > > 3) (Not yet practical) Lint(1) needs to properlyu understand > all of te code we actually run. > > Complained about by: bde > Education by: jake, jhb, eivind I spent about 2 hours writing mail attempting to educate Mark about this. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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