Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:52:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs / cdevsw Message-ID: <199710060752.AAA25610@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971006071634.YU58556@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 6, 97 07:16:34 am
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> > Unless you want the code to be portable to archaic pre-ANSI compilers, > > ... > > We (FreeBSD) have decided some time ago that we don't want. This is fine for FreeBSD itself. I suppose. > FreeBSD > doesn't compile on a non-ANSI compiler anymore anyway, and there's no > good reason to hold back things like string splitting forever just for > the sake of no longer used C compilers. However, user tools and so on (general user space code) should probably be protable to other OS's, including old Xenix boxes with non-ANSI compilers. I don't mean that the kerneitself should be, but in general, it is a mistake toartifically restrict your market for nothing more than religious reasons. Unless your goals are religious... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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