From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 9:50:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE9F37B404 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0UHnWd66471; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:49:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:37:22 PST." <3C57BED2.E1144F41@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:49:32 -0800 Message-ID: <66467.1012412972@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard 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 > You mean like when I compile "grep" and other command line tools > on my Amiga using Manx Aztec C, a K&R compiler? The utter obsolescence of your Amiga aside (heck, I gave my A2500 away many years ago), I think I've already made the point that there are other sources for grep for these sorts of exercises in retrocomputing. FreeBSD is not trying to be everything to everyone - we have other *BSDs which fill other niches and other code bases (the historical USL stuff already mentioned) which fill needs like this. > Really, if someone can't understand __P(), they should probably > not be in the kernel, with all those "dangerous" linker sets > and other less obvious code than __P()... That's a total Red Herring. It was never stated that people "couldn't understand" __P() - we're talking about code clutter and asthetic appeal, something I'd expect an Amiga owner to understand. :) > Can you get BSDI, NetBSD, and OpenBSD to go along with this? BSD/OS is frankly of no concern, being another tiny niche player (see comments about the Amiga again), but I'll bet there would be less resistance from the {Net,Open}BSD camps than you think. Even the NetBSD/amiga port uses gcc. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message