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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:14:58 -0400
To: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: macro recommendation (Was ...)
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At 8:52 AM -0700 9/5/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>Also, if you want a truely portable usage, we cannot use __RCSID()
>because too much NetBSD and vendor sources use it.  Peter's hack
>will not work for all compilers.  I would have prefered a __FBSD()
>and __CSRG() macro for the same reasons we switched to $FreeBSD$
>from $Id$.  These would have worked for all compilers, but I cannot
>complete with an effort backed by Peter.

It seems reasonable to me that freebsd would use different macro
names for freebsd-specific id's.  The issue isn't one that I feel
strongly about, but I can see the advantage of using distinctive
names.

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