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 Message-ID: <19971006071634.YU58556@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710052316.QAA22821@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Oct 5, 1997 23:16:24 %2B0000 References: <199710040801.RAA00530@word.smith.net.au> <199710052316.QAA22821@usr05.primenet.com>
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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. ;-)
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