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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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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

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Archie Cobbs     *     Precision I/O      *     http://www.precisionio.com