Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 07:11:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions Message-ID: <199808070711.AAA21912@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808070138.SAA01445@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Aug 6, 98 06:38:37 pm
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> > > Is it allowed in FreeBSD? Is all FreeBSD C source code portable? > > > > Good question; I don't know the answer. > > > > I know that FreeBSD uses inline assembly, rather than seperating > > out the assembly code into machine-specific compilation units > > (preferrably with vanilla C equivalents, where possible). > > Actually, we largely do separate into compilation units. See all those > files ending in '.s' and '.S'? Ah! So FreeBSD will compile with TenDRA? Sorry about the mistake, then... > > I also know that FreeBSD uses ANSI constructs, which make the > > code non-portable to older compilers, such as those you would > > have on machines running older OS's that you want to upgrade > > to running FreeBSD via a port. > > Seeing as nobody actually seems to want this, it's obviously not of > much interest. I want it; I'm usually shouted down. At the very least, an internally consistent policy would be nice... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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