From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 15:17:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7720C37B405; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E7143EB2; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd.dev@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk ([80.192.78.208]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:18:42 +0000 Message-ID: <3E249A88.7030109@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:17:28 +0000 From: Keith Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20030111 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Bruce Evans , Jake Burkholder , sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: fpsetmask on sparc64 References: <20030113200018.P11690-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3E2321CF.A5835FCD@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20030113200018.P11690-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > If a legacy application stops working because a system changes, > it's the fault of the system doing the changing, not the fault of > the people back in 1984 who didn't know ANSI was going to bung-up > the C language until their application no longer worked. > > There has to be some allowance for the continuity of code; it > can't just be orphaned instantaneously, without some warning > from the system vendor. I'm new to this list, so apologies if this has been stated before, but having just discovered that /usr/include/malloc.h has gone from being merely deprecated (in -STABLE) to obsolete (in -RC), I'm with Terry on this one. Yes it may be the right thing to do from a standards point of view, but there's still a lot of legacy code out there that uses it. (And a lot of new code too, I'll bet, since malloc.h still works fine and dandy on Linux, and despite the fact that the man page has said '#include ' for a few years now, developers still fail to RTFM, it appears.) Okay, it's only a small thing, but if you have too many of these small things to deal with at once, you're in porting Hell. ;) Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message