Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:08:30 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com> To: <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Cc: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Subject: Removing __P() (was Re: whois(1) patch) Message-ID: <B73D7C8E.BF2%mike@q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010531182606.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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[Moved to -arch, BCC'd to -audit] On 5/31/01 6:26 PM, Mike Heffner at mheffner@novacoxmail.com wrote: > On 31-May-2001 Mike Barcroft wrote: > | > | I originally made the ANSI C change to silence a warning, but is there any > | reason not to bring the code up to ANSI C spec? Is it likely that anyone > | will need to compile whois with a K&R compiler? > > It's not likely, but I'm not sure on what the consensus is on ANSI-fication. > Technically, style(9) says it shouldn't be done in this case, but people > (myself included) have been removing K&R support in small patches like this > one. I think there was also talk of doing a full sweep to remove __P. Does anyone have any objections to removing __P() and converting prototypes to ANSI C, as part of binary cleaning up/auditing? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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