Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:58:39 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <p05101411b880afceb5db@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020202045410.U4512-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20020202045410.U4512-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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At 5:21 AM +1100 2/2/02, Bruce Evans wrote: >On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > So do I qualify? We all know that the original poster of the > > comment didn't understand this subtlty. :-) > >Better than the original poster :-). The original poster did md5 >regression checks which would help. I think the global changes >should just stay away from areas that can't be checked automatically. Okay, okay. As the "original poster" I'll admit that I am not an encyclopedia of C knowledge... :-) Still, if the routine is only *using* a char's worth of the incoming parameter, I would prefer the prototype defines the parameter as 'char' and not 'int'. That's just my personal preference, based on an upbringing which involved languages other than C. [and yes, I do understand how C passes parameters, and I guess I can see why there might be some logic in the prototype defining it as 'int' -- but I just don't like doing that] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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