Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:27:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of register && K&R function decl. Message-ID: <p05111725b8f6412e3f33@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020501193212.C9763-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> References: <20020501193212.C9763-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
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At 7:39 PM -0400 5/1/02, Jeff Roberson wrote: >What is the policy on commits soley to remove the register >keyword, as well as ansification of functions? The decision has already been made that ansi-fication of source is a good idea, and many commits have been made along those lines in the last few months. I'm pretty sure the consensus is that it's also a good idea to remove 'register' references, generally done as a separate commit. That way it's a little easier to test that no bugs are introduced by the ansi-fication. >A certain eager contributor would like to do a general sweep >through kern/* to remove these antiquities. However, with all the SMPng and other kernel work going on, it probably would not be a good idea to go running around changing those particular source files. Ansi-fication is a "good thing", but it is not a high-priority change to make. It is not a "good thing" if doing this will disrupt other work which is actively going on in the same source files. You'd need to check on a file-by-file basis to see if anyone's working on it, instead of trying for a general sweep through all the files. Note that I don't work on the kern files, so the above is just my own opinion. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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