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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: __P macro question 
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:41:01 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Plenty of innocent electrons have been wasted in the last 10 years
> trying to prove that that the set "Terrys problems", is the most
> important subset of the set "The FreeBSD projects problems", but
> so far no evidence has been found to support this claim.

As much as I don't like the look of the __P() construct, surely it's
worthwhile if it means our code is easier to port to odd little embedded
systems?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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