From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 15 2:19:54 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B15937B401; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0143E42; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAFAJiw29561; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:19:44 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:19:44 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Harti Brandt , "M. Warner Losh" , , , , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c In-Reply-To: <200211151014.gAFAE1d3007786@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <20021115111704.B2812-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: MD> I don't see how this has anything to do with a mini-c library. You MD> seem to be proposing that every program in bin be rewritten to MD> support multiple languages. That is a totally separate issue. I MD> am not proposing that the use of a mini-c library cause program MD> output to be different then it would be with libc. If at some future MD> date someone wishes to put in serious multi-language support then MD> those programs would simply not be compiled with a mini-c or, MD> alternatively, one could have a make.conf variable to enable or MD> disable the mini-c mode, or set a particular language statically MD> for mini-c. Either way this line of thought has nothing to do with MD> my current mini-c proposal. Part of your proposal is to build the mini-c without language support. So you are going to do a change, that in the future has simply to be reverted step by step. I can't see how this buys us anything. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message