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Date:      Tue, 10 May 2016 09:05:17 -0700
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r299363 - head/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/asm
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpVsR0Gr7MSRo2HRPZRYeygObM0Cqk_WbRN3L-ifmyTpUg@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <201605101139.u4ABdaTL098171@repo.freebsd.org> <7693af09-def2-e8a7-b7fd-9b6df41908cc@selasky.org> <4312956.Tckd6PoFKf@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:55 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 05:06:08 PM Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 05/10/16 13:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> > Author: hselasky
>> > Date: Tue May 10 11:39:36 2016
>> > New Revision: 299363
>> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/299363
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Use function macros when possible to avoid stray substitutions.
>> >
>> >   MFC after:        1 week
>> >   Sponsored by:     Mellanox Technologies
>> >
>
> Is the reason for the change to avoid accepting the wrong number of arguments
> (e.g. cpu_to_be32(x, y))?  Won't that still fail to compile if so?  (That is,
> the reasoning for why you made the original change isn't clear to me from the
> commit.)

The macro form also prevents clobbering non-function-pointer variables
named "cpu_to_be32," right?  Not that that's a great variable name.

Best,
Conrad



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