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Date:      Thu, 08 May 2003 23:30:18 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: `Hiding' libc symbols
Message-ID:  <xzpu1c5unx1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030508161223.GL1869@survey.codeburst.net> (Paul Richards's message of "Thu, 8 May 2003 17:12:24 %2B0100")
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Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> writes:
> Any C code that isn't written according to the standard that defines
> C is broken.

That includes most of the FreeBSD source tree.

> There's just no argument to be made that FreeBSD should be hacked
> to support C code that is written by programmers who haven't bothered
> to learn the rules of C properly.
> [...]
> My opinion is that FreeBSD should cater to the people who know their
> stuff and let the crap programmers out their be shown the bugs that
> exist in their code when they try to use it on FreeBSD.

Now I know why people accuse us of elitism...

Let's please not favor pedantry over robustness.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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