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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:48:44 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        sam@errno.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, flz@xbsd.org
Subject:   Re: SIMPLEQ_* macros from OpenBSD sys/queue.h
Message-ID:  <20050714114844.GD26821@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <20050714.002247.82101613.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20050712221444.GA1180@gothmog.gr> <42D56C15.2070400@errno.com> <20050713210941.GA841@gothmog.gr> <20050714.002247.82101613.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On 2005-07-14 00:22, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <20050713210941.GA841@gothmog.gr>
>             Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
> : I couldn't agree more.  Helping source-level compatibility, as much as
> : this can be accomplished for kernel code, is definitely a plus.  This is
> : partly the reason why I noted that OpenBSD synchronized their queue.h
> : header with NetBSD a few times in the past.  I just didn't propose
> : something like this because I'm not sure I can convince any of the three
> : BSD teams to s/SIMPLEQ/STAILQ/ or vice versa :-)
>
> Yea, but adding the #defines to sys/queue.h in both directions likely
> wouldn't hurt.

Surely.  Great idea!

As long as there *is* an equivalent macro that exactly matches the
expected behavior, this can work nicely.




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