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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include endian.h
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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


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