Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:45:28 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? Message-ID: <200003130145.RAA51429@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk> References: <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk> <200003120430.UAA49807@vashon.polstra.com> <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk>
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In article <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> wrote: > > > > They must not go into <limits.h>. 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 <machine/limits.h> 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
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