Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:32:26 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability sanity check Message-ID: <20010223143225.F41493@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <2210.982772911@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:28:31PM %2B0100 References: <20010221102200.A93525@hamlet.nectar.com> <2210.982772911@critter>
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:28:31PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Type-safety is a cruch for the weak-minded.
^^^^^
> As an old assembler programmer I couldn't agree more, but in a project
> like FreeBSD we have to realize that not everybody is that.
Heh, I was just cleaning out these message from my inbox, and I
discovered that spell-checkers are a crutch for the weak-minded,
too :-)
Thanks for everyone's feedback. I decided that I'm quite happy to
use type-punning for more-or-less primitive types when building
comparison functions and the like. For more complex stuff, it seems
simplest/clearest to use a `void *' for internal data, a la db.
Cheers,
--
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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