From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 2:20:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C538737B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0125.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.125] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Vrqt-0006wc-00; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:20:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3C57C8E2.5D7F9DCC@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:20:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Jordan Hubbard , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question References: <63256.1012384768@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sheldon Hearn 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? For what it's worth, I consider __P() to be incredibly ugly, but to be a necessary evil to ensure code portability. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message