From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 20 14:11:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id C9EBF37B401; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 14:11:15 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem detecting POSIX symbolic constants Message-ID: <20021020141115.A88848@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021016121455.A3711@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021020.134409.73085448.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021020204920.C8767@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021020.143416.109047247.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021020.143416.109047247.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:34:16PM -0600 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: "M. Warner Losh" [ Data: 2002-10-20 ] [ Subjecte: Re: Problem detecting POSIX symbolic constants ] > So it looks like it was added just after K&R1, but early enough that > 4.2BSD had it (and maybe earlier), which would explain why SunOS groks > it. 1984 definitely pre-dates the standard (and in fact this same > article goes on to describe varadic functions with a syntax that is > different than what was finally adapoted). Look at the old pcc(1) code in the PUPS/TUHS archives. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message