Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:17:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: `Hiding' libc symbols Message-ID: <200305081617.h48GHcZT008633@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20030508161223.GL1869@survey.codeburst.net>
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Paul Richards wrote: > > But gee, the problem is that the ports themselves are not really > > in error, unless one is a standards fascist that believes that an > > application can never define any function that might be in some > > standard's namespace. > > Any C code that isn't written according to the standard that defines > C is broken. > > There's just no argument to be made that FreeBSD should be hacked > to support C code that is written by programmers who haven't bothered > to learn the rules of C properly. Agreed... and even if you *do* believe FreeBSD should accomodate such broken applications, the place to put the hack is in the port, not in the base system. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Precision I/O * http://www.precisionio.com
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