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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: a chicken-egg problem with bootp and nfs_mountroot
In-Reply-To: <199802270249.SAA20060@crab.whistle.com> from Doug Ambrisko at "Feb 26, 98 06:49:41 pm"
To: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:09:18 -0800 (PST)
Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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Doug Ambrisko writes:
> Don't think so for example:
> 	options	"BOOTP_WIRED_TO=fxp0"
> Then in a c-snippet:
> 	strcmp(string,BOOTP_WIRED_TO)
> Will change into
> 	strcmp(string,fxp0)
> which will fail to compile want
> 	 strcmp(string,"fxp0")
> so for now I stick in a 
> 	#define BOOTP_WIRED_TO "fxp0" 
> in the code.

#define Q(x)	#x

Then Q(asdf) returns "asdf" (as I remember).

-Archie

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