Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:13:35 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <3C589A3F.10F18882@mindspring.com> References: <20020130221427.522493A9A@overcee.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > In case you didn't notice, this rant you posted is in a thread > that mentions that NetBSD *is* agressively removing __P() and OpenBSD > appear to be as well. I want the decision to be intentional, not simply because of "herd instinct". > The bottom line is that the effort to port gcc to an arch that only has a > K&R compiler is far more productive than trying to get our tree to build > on a K&R-only compiler. The cost to doing this is: 1) You risk becoming the compiler maintainer for 2 years, in order to comply with the license. 2) It is another barrier to using BSD code. 3) The GCC compiler is sub-par on many architectures. > Nobody in their right mind is going to run FreeBSD-5.x on a 6809 or > a Z80 or a 68010. The least of their problems is the compiler. I hope your misunderstanding here is intentional. I am not talking about running the full FreeBSD-5.x on a 68010, I am talking about using portions of the code as a reference implementation. For example, taking the TCP/IP stack by itself, with all the DOS attack hardening and other hardenening, and using it in a system other than FreeBSD. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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