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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current)
Subject: Re: 'howmany' cruft
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KOI8-R writes:
> What I find in
> sys/types.h:
> #ifndef howmany
> #define	howmany(x, y)	(((x) + ((y) - 1)) / (y))
> #endif
> I find it because netpbm redifines it and gcc produce warning on this place.
> It looks very suspicious for me (I mean ANSI namespace violation).
> Do we really need it? Can we rename it to _howmany at least?

Please!


Nate