From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 2:40:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E4D37B402 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:40:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0125.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.125] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16VsAE-0006lZ-00; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:40:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C57CD90.351F9AD5@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:40:16 -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: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Jordan Hubbard , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question References: <21280.1012384756@critter.freebsd.dk> <3C57C858.5FCC9453@mindspring.com> <20020130103326.GJ22384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> 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 Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > Anyway, are you scared of ANSI C? > Your argumentation is starting to border on the point of fright of > moving forward to a standard a bit closer to what people are actually > taught in schools nowadays. Microsoft Visual C++? 8-). > Most people don't even KNOW K&R C anymore, let alone use it. So moving > to an ANSI standard in today's world might even be better to continue to > act as a reference platform. ANSI C is less portable than K&R C, and ANSI compilers will compile K&R C. I would suggest avoiding bitfields, and byte order dependent coding, too, if you want the code to be portable. > Backporting is already a pain in the arse, having just recently been > through backporting Scott Long's UDF driver to STABLE. And that's new > code not even in CURRENT nor in STABLE, just making use of the APIs and > supplied functionality. Then by all means, make it even harder, for aesthetic reasons. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message