From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 2: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ADC37B400 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:04:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0UA1ir21419; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:01:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Terry Lambert , Jordan Hubbard , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:59:28 +0200." <63256.1012384768@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:01:44 +0100 Message-ID: <21417.1012384904@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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