From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 12 17:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C35037BDCE for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:57:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.241]) by mail.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478961D132; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:57:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <38CC4AFD.7E649664@originative.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:57:17 +0000 From: Paul Richards Organization: Originative Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? References: <38CAD957.3C839375@originative.co.uk> <200003120430.UAA49807@vashon.polstra.com> <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk> <200003130145.RAA51429@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > In article <38CB322D.D12ED0B0@originative.co.uk>, > Paul Richards wrote: > > > > > > They must not go into . That header file is defined by > > > the ANSI/ISO C standard. The standard doesn't permit polluting the > > > namespace with extra stuff. > > > > Umm, ok. I don't think our limits.h actually has anything in it that > > meets the ANSI/ISO standard, every line is ifdef'd :-) Where would be a > > better place for constants like this? > > Sheesh, criticism isn't enough? Now it has to be constructive too? ;-) > > I guess it could go into in the > "!defined(_ANSI_SOURCE)" section. Bruce might have a better idea. I don't think is the right place. These are constants that are definately not architecture dependent. The whole problem at the moment is that the code is abusing architecture dependent constants in lieu of anything better. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message