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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2001 23:40:45 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: {get,set}progname functions
Message-ID:  <20010501234045.S5017@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010502043809.3B57D3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:38:08PM -0700
References:  <20010501225758.Q5017@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010502043809.3B57D3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:38:08PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> In the header file?  Removing __P() in a standalone program is most

__P() is just syntactic sugar.  It won't make a difference as far as
compiling goes.  I just tried it myself.

> likely harmless.  Removing it from header files is probably a
> different story.  Don't get me wrong; I have no use for __P().  I just
> think nuking it in header files will be met with more resistance than
> usual.  For one, it makes the entire system (well, anything that uses
> that header file, which is a large chunck of programs) incompatible
> with a ``K&R Old Testament'' compiler.

Exactly the point.

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