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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:07:32 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r329164 - in head: include sys/amd64/include sys/i386/include sys/mips/include sys/powerpc/include sys/sparc64/include
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfoEAd8s8KvU_CazQKT%2Bc-ZjHdgTaH6b-3bLR2m51hi8rg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180212155749.GA27160@britannica.bec.de>
References:  <201802121448.w1CEmEUX082701@repo.freebsd.org> <20180212155749.GA27160@britannica.bec.de>

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 02:48:14PM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Author: imp
> > Date: Mon Feb 12 14:48:14 2018
> > New Revision: 329164
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329164
> >
> > Log:
> >   We don't support gcc < 4.2.1, so varargs.h now is just #error
> >   always. Unifdef for versions prior to 4.2.1 and remove now-unused
> >   header files.
>
> In my experience it is better to really drop it. Keeping the header with
> an #error is just creating *more* pain than having no header at all.
>

My change didn't change anything here. It already was a #error. I just
changed it from #if <always true> #error #endif to #error. I'll leave it to
the compliance folks to jump in and remove it. It's a posix header, it
seems. But nobody is using it and it can't be causing widespread problems
today or it would be on people's radar... It's not.

Warner


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