From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 16:05:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFDE37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law15-f52.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.23.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3A643F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:05:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ljfong@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:05:09 -0700 Received: from 12.203.74.183 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:05:09 GMT X-Originating-IP: [12.203.74.183] X-Originating-Email: [ljfong@hotmail.com] From: "Lin Jianfong" To: questions@joshualokken.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:05:09 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2003 23:05:09.0440 (UTC) FILETIME=[DEA22400:01C34CB7] cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of definitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:05:10 -0000 As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++, an object oriented C, and I doubt if anyone is still using it nowadays. As for re-entrant, this is used when doing thread programming. I didn't bother with these either when upgrading a 4.7 box to 4.8. >From: "Joshua Lokken" >To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" >Subject: A couple of definitions >Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:35:08 -0700 > >Hello > >I am going through /etc/defaults/make.conf (4-stable) and am >at a loss concerning two items: Objective C support, and >libc_r (re-entrant version of libc). What are those? I built >the world recently without them, and I'm not witnessing any >problems, but I'm curious. Google got me some answers >I couldn't understand... > >Thanks in advance. >-- >Best Regards, > >Joshua Lokken > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus