From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 5 22:20:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA04495 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA04490 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 22:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA12274 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:20:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA02796; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:16:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971006071634.YU58556@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:16:34 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs / cdevsw References: <199710040801.RAA00530@word.smith.net.au> <199710052316.QAA22821@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710052316.QAA22821@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Oct 5, 1997 23:16:24 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > What does __P() do to a function declaration? > > It's archaic junk left over from the days of pre-ANSI compilers. > 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. 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)