Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:45:11 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha interrupt.c machdep.c mp_mac Message-ID: <200101111845.f0BIjBs35569@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:40:02 PST." <XFMail.010111104002.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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>> Anyone touching these variables had better understand what they are for >> and how they operate. I think our developers are smart enough to understand >> this without ugly upper-case macros. Heck "errno" is not spelled >> PTHREAD_GET(errno), or PTHREAD_SET(errno, error) and still people seem >> to be able to write useful threaded apps. 8-) > >Erm, I didn't know that all developers that ever touched the kernel needed to >memorize all the various MD header files machine/globals.h and >machine/globaldata.h for _each_ architecture. I guess we want the learning >curve so high that no one else can submit code? :-P That is an implementation complaint, not an interface complaint. I thought we were discussing the interface? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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