Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:27:16 -0800 (PST) From: chuck rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: <freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: pathchk Message-ID: <20020131135842.A96280-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> In-Reply-To: <200201302216.g0UMG1Y64367@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:41:10 +0000 (GMT), =?iso-8859-1?q?Michael=20Henry?= <aviast@yahoo.com> said: > > > Are you proposing replacing "sizeof(char)" with "1"? > > Surely the former is more clear? > > It makes it more clear that the author does not understand the C > language, perhaps. Grandiloquent nonsense. > > On another point: what is the general consensus on casting > > functions to void? > > I am of the opinion that it is silly. Other reasonable people > disagree. (I happen to think that their reasons for disagreement are > the result of inadequate tools, and the appropriate response is to fix > the tool, not kluge up the source code.) Agreed, but given the number such casts currently peppered about in the source tree, and maybe some of the recent arguments for __P() on -arch, should this practice be continued? I wouldn't mind hearing additional comments on this topic since I have other things I'd like contribute. .cr > -GAWollman > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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