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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:20:18 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: __P macro question
Message-ID:  <3C57C8E2.5D7F9DCC@mindspring.com>
References:  <63256.1012384768@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > Plenty of innocent electrons have been wasted in the last 10 years
> > trying to prove that that the set "Terrys problems", is the most
> > important subset of the set "The FreeBSD projects problems", but
> > so far no evidence has been found to support this claim.
> 
> As much as I don't like the look of the __P() construct, surely it's
> worthwhile if it means our code is easier to port to odd little embedded
> systems?

For what it's worth, I consider __P() to be incredibly ugly,
but to be a necessary evil to ensure code portability.

-- Terry

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