Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:49:32 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: __P macro question Message-ID: <66467.1012412972@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:37:22 PST." <3C57BED2.E1144F41@mindspring.com>
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> You mean like when I compile "grep" and other command line tools
> on my Amiga using Manx Aztec C, a K&R compiler?
The utter obsolescence of your Amiga aside (heck, I gave my A2500 away
many years ago), I think I've already made the point that there are
other sources for grep for these sorts of exercises in retrocomputing.
FreeBSD is not trying to be everything to everyone - we have other
*BSDs which fill other niches and other code bases (the historical USL
stuff already mentioned) which fill needs like this.
> Really, if someone can't understand __P(), they should probably
> not be in the kernel, with all those "dangerous" linker sets
> and other less obvious code than __P()...
That's a total Red Herring. It was never stated that people "couldn't
understand" __P() - we're talking about code clutter and asthetic
appeal, something I'd expect an Amiga owner to understand. :)
> Can you get BSDI, NetBSD, and OpenBSD to go along with this?
BSD/OS is frankly of no concern, being another tiny niche player (see
comments about the Amiga again), but I'll bet there would be less
resistance from the {Net,Open}BSD camps than you think. Even the
NetBSD/amiga port uses gcc.
- Jordan
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