From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 1 12:59: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126CF37B404 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g11Kwc969134; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:58:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020202045410.U4512-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20020202045410.U4512-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:58:39 -0500 To: Bruce Evans , "M. Warner Losh" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: __P macro question Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:21 AM +1100 2/2/02, Bruce Evans wrote: >On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > So do I qualify? We all know that the original poster of the > > comment didn't understand this subtlty. :-) > >Better than the original poster :-). The original poster did md5 >regression checks which would help. I think the global changes >should just stay away from areas that can't be checked automatically. Okay, okay. As the "original poster" I'll admit that I am not an encyclopedia of C knowledge... :-) Still, if the routine is only *using* a char's worth of the incoming parameter, I would prefer the prototype defines the parameter as 'char' and not 'int'. That's just my personal preference, based on an upbringing which involved languages other than C. [and yes, I do understand how C passes parameters, and I guess I can see why there might be some logic in the prototype defining it as 'int' -- but I just don't like doing that] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message