From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 13:30: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D5C37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A743743E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from toad.stack.nl (toad.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5010:202:b3ff:fe17:9e1a]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD37E5877; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:30:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by toad.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 9798D96D3; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:30:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:30:00 +0100 From: Marc Olzheim To: Terry Lambert Cc: Marc Olzheim , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/ed/bin/re.c:99 Message-ID: <20021106213000.GA42483@stack.nl> References: <20021106164653.GA95733@stack.nl> <3DC9811E.35657731@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC9811E.35657731@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toad.stack.nl 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [snip interesting piece of compiler history] > In any case, your fears are unfounded, for the most part, since > the FAQ entry you are referencing is not analogous to the construct > you are trying to apply it to, anyway, and the FAQ fails to deal > with many of these portability issues, too, since it assumes that > the compiler is to spec.. If not in this FAQ, where else are things like this documented ? There are also porgrammers who _do_ want to do it the portable/right way, but if the documentation is nowhere to be found... Any pointers ? Thanks for the info, Zlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message