Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:01:44 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <21417.1012384904@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:59:28 %2B0200." <63256.1012384768@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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In message <63256.1012384768@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >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? No it is not worthwhile, because the people who need the __P() for their odd little embedded systems can trivially insert __P() into our .h files with a script. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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