From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Aug 13 10: 3:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (dsl092-013-169.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA2C37B40E; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7DH3TS99819; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:03:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexey Zelkin , Bruce Evans , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __RCSID() and __VERSION() macros and their ``static const char'' equivalents Message-ID: <20010813100329.C94831@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010813165753.A74504@sunbay.com> <20010813174114.A26468@phantom.cris.net> <20010813094549.A94831@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010813195826.A99201@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010813195826.A99201@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:58:26PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > __RCSID() should be forgotten about. It is a lost cause like using > > "$Id$". There is just too much imported and barrowed code that uses > > __RCSID for us to try to use it also (I tried). I have a few ideas on > > the topic and let see if the small group of us discussing the issue can > > flush something out. > > > I can't see what's wrong with current implementation of __RCSID(), > it definitely works. There are problems with it. Please don't turn this into a bikeshed. The small working group we've had on this is suffient to work out something. > And the version using ``.ident'' produces more compact objects. > Just check it! I *realize* that. Read what I said! You wrote a sweaping generalization. I simply said it was. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message