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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>,
	Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>,
	Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.frmug.org>,
	Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Krzysztof J?druczyk <beaker@hot.pl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Wine-2002.10.07 port on FreeBSD 5.0-current
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [021108 05:29] wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.44.0211081411050.74479-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, G
> erald Pfeifer writes:
> 
> >Sheesh.
> >
> >PHK, now we have the situation where user programs require #ifdefs
> >to be portable among the BSDs when this was not required before.
> >
> >Please consider reverting
> 
> That has been considered, and I don't think it is a sensible solution,
> unless we can get rid of the DBREG_DRX() macro which was the cause
> of the evilness:

Honestly keeping it is probablly a good idea, using an acccessor macro
for something like this may help us port to "near i386" arches.

It might be a good idea to push Net/Open to add our macro.  That way
each can have thier own little nuainces but it will be masked by the
macro.

-Alfred

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