From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 10:43:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334AD37B488 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:43:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0UIhF310054 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:43:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01140 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:43:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 10907 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Jan 2002 18:43:12 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:43:11 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Terry Lambert , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <20020130184311.GA10841@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Jordan Hubbard , Terry Lambert , Dallas De Atley , arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C57BED2.E1144F41@mindspring.com> <66467.1012412972@winston.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <66467.1012412972@winston.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:49:32AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. I strongly disagree that the Amiga is utterly obsolete (I still use my A1200 :-) ), but Terry's comment is irrelevant anyway. The reason for this is that there are several ANSI C compilers available for the Amiga (including gcc) so there is no need to use a K&R compiler there. I believe there are very few platforms in active use today that do not have an ANSI C compiler available. (With the possible exceptions of CP/M and C64 and older embedded CPUs, none of which I think FreeBSD need to worry much about.) On the whole I think there is very little need to worry about K&R compatibility today. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message