From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 6 00:52:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA11782 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 00:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11777 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 00:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA25610 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 00:52:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710060752.AAA25610@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: devfs / cdevsw To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:52:32 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <19971006071634.YU58556@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 6, 97 07:16:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Unless you want the code to be portable to archaic pre-ANSI compilers, > > ... > > We (FreeBSD) have decided some time ago that we don't want. This is fine for FreeBSD itself. I suppose. > FreeBSD > doesn't compile on a non-ANSI compiler anymore anyway, and there's no > good reason to hold back things like string splitting forever just for > the sake of no longer used C compilers. However, user tools and so on (general user space code) should probably be protable to other OS's, including old Xenix boxes with non-ANSI compilers. I don't mean that the kerneitself should be, but in general, it is a mistake toartifically restrict your market for nothing more than religious reasons. Unless your goals are religious... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.