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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>
Cc: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>, freebsd-audit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: whois(1) patch
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:40:58PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > Yes.  Lets plan for a sweep in 6mo. or so and make the conversion.
> > Many of us don't want the CSRG derived sources in various forms -- they
> > should be kept consistent.
> 
> Perhaps we should also remove the register storage-classes at that time.

With out a doubt.  I sort of see it as an ANSI'ifcation as such compilers
tend to ignore `register' a lot more than K&R ones.


> The best time to do this is probably right before 5.0 enters BETA, as to
> reduce the differences between -STABLE and -CURRENT.  Is that your thinking
> as well?

Not yet sure when the best time will be.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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