From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 12 17:45:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48E437B55B for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07083; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA51429; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003130145.RAA51429@vashon.polstra.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? In-Reply-To: <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk> References: <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk> <200003120430.UAA49807@vashon.polstra.com> <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk>, Paul Richards wrote: > > > > They must not go into . That header file is defined by > > the ANSI/ISO C standard. The standard doesn't permit polluting the > > namespace with extra stuff. > > Umm, ok. I don't think our limits.h actually has anything in it that > meets the ANSI/ISO standard, every line is ifdef'd :-) Where would be a > better place for constants like this? Sheesh, criticism isn't enough? Now it has to be constructive too? ;-) I guess it could go into in the "!defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)" section. Bruce might have a better idea. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message