From owner-cvs-all Mon May 10 8:47: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8539115EAF; Mon, 10 May 1999 08:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01703; Mon, 10 May 1999 09:46:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA13757; Mon, 10 May 1999 09:46:43 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:46:43 -0600 Message-Id: <199905101546.JAA13757@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys types.h In-Reply-To: <23320.926310298@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199905092221.IAA25882@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <23320.926310298@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> Modified files: > >> sys/sys types.h > >> Log: > >> Make minor, major and makedev inline functions so we gain type checking > >> and prevent compile time creation of dev_t's from happening again. > > > >You can't do that. It adds gratuitous dependencies on the compiler being > >gcc to the most central header in the system. > > It is a temporary thing. Based on previous history, your idea of temporary is '18-24 months', which is not my idea of temporary. (I'm *still* waiting for the TCL tools to be imported in the next couple weeks. :) :) :) :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message