Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:21:01 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? Message-ID: <200003141221.HAA84797@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <00Mar14.160314est.115202@border.alcanet.com.au> from Peter Jeremy at "Mar 14, 2000 04:03:13 pm"
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> If this was comp.std.c, then I'd agree that such constructs may fail > in some environments. It's not so clear that we need to worry about > this here (this being FreeBSD)... No, system headers should be sticklers to the standard to remain friendly to architectures BSD won't run on but the headers might be useful for. I can imagine non-byte addressable floating point DSPs with sizeof(char) == sizeof(double). I won't complain about the headers in a machine subdirectory. -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Fail-Safe systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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