From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 18:56:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AF2A9D3; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jerrymc.net (jerrymc.net [75.75.214.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C26715EF; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jerrymc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jerrymc.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s38Iik2r079648; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:44:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@jerrymc.net) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by jerrymc.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id s38IijSu079647; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:44:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:44:45 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Ian Lepore Subject: Re: Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20140408184445.GA79554@jerrymc.net> References: <14679.1396898970@critter.freebsd.dk> <201404081711.34003.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <1396974609.81853.443.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1396974609.81853.443.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Frank Mitchell X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:56:45 -0000 On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:30:09AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: Ever notice how someone posts something somewhat off-topic or flame provocative on one of the lists and then we get up to several dozen posts saying feed the troll and ban the troll, etc. All the ban-ists generate more useless traffic (including this one) than any troll and responses. ////jerry > 1) It's off-topic for this list. > > 2) The person has an ever-growing history of trolling this list (and > probably just needs to be banned at this point). Not the usual "trying > to make flames" kind of trolling, the more insidious "act just barely > reasonable enough to get lots of people to waste lots of time" kind of > trolling. > > If you want to discuss vague generalities around the issue of assembler > language programming, I'm sure you can find an appropriate forum to do > so that doesn't also spam people trying to get freebsd work done. > > -- Ian > > On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 17:11 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote: > > Why are people moaning just because the guy wants to discuss Assembly? He's > > not doing any harm. Some of us are interested, even if we don't want to get > > into Assembly personally. > > > > On Monday 07 Apr 2014 20:29:30 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message , Jorge Luis > > > Carvalho Santos writes: > > > > > >According to the book "Complete and Total C" by Herbert Schildt, > > > >the general rule is not to use Assembly because it creates too many > > > >problems. > > > > > > Don't feed the troll. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"