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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:24:54PM +1000, Bruce Evans (bde@zeta.org.au) wrote:
> These seem to be actually the well behaved packages.  __FreeBSD_version
> seems to be documented only in /usr/share/examples/FreeBSD_version/,
> and only <osreldate.h> is mentioned there.  <osreldate.h> is less evil
> than <sys/param.h>.

Why?  Why have a nonstandard header file containing only
__FreeBSD_version?  What's wrong with putting that in sys/param.h?

The documentation, of course, should either be fixed to reflect
use of sys/param.h or to put your answer why not.

-- 
wca

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