Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:04:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doreti() and userret() Message-ID: <3C4B30DF.62FFD77E@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201200121570.5016-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > I notice that you are reversing people's work of gradually > getting rid of K&R function declarations. This is opposite to what we > are doing as a group. (converting functions to ansi declarations > as we hit them). If you want, I could "hit" all of them for you; that would be as simple as running one of the ANSI-fication programs from port, if you were really into the idea of FreeBSD never being able to be compiled with a K&R compiler ever again. We all know that prototypes exist because there is a missing linker field in object files that would do that same thing at link time, without needing to have prottypes in scope at compilation time, and that this is probably because the compiler vendors were lazy at the time, and didn't want to have to modify their linkers or object file formats. Now we have the ability to put this information into a seperate ELF section, there's really no excuse for prototypes... Whatever happened to the idea that BSD code would run everywhere, or that an OS might have to be ported to a new platform, without the OS porting team having to become the GCC maintainer for that platform for the next 2 years, minimally, in order to meet the license and distribution requirements of GPL derived code? > > Please don't top post (top mail?). > > what does that mean? > I shouldn't add to the top of the old email? It means "don't post a response before the context in which the response is being made, or don't include unnecessary context at all, if the context included is not needed". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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