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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:34:21 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: __P macro question 
Message-ID:  <200201301034.g0UAYLb01598@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:33:03 %2B0200." <63553.1012386783@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> 

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> I think the original idea was to do it for HEAD only, to avoid unnecessary
> deltas for RELENG_4 cvsup users.  Since 5.0-RELEASE has been delayed, it
> probably doesn't make sense for the purge to happen until the advent of
> the RELENG_5 branch.  We don't want gratuitous diffs like this making
> merges onto RELENG_4 difficult.

Actually, eliminating __P() will have little or no effect on merge 
activity.  It's a headerfile construct, typically only found in function 
prototype blocks.  The sort of noise that would be generated by removing 
it is fairly trivially identified and ignored, compared to any of the 
other, massively intrusive changes that are going on.



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