Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:00:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdlib.h Message-ID: <20020922040010.GA32379@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200209220347.g8M3lhlg072478@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200209210203.g8L23wnH080411@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020922031311.GA30425@dragon.nuxi.com> <200209220347.g8M3lhlg072478@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:47:43PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:13:11 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > BSD traditional functions: > > And they have long since been overtaken by events. There is now a > Standard way of doing this, without the need for the `quad_t' kluge. > > Do you have any idea how many ports use strtoq() rather that > > strtoll()? > > There can't be that many, since most of the ports have been written > for platforms other than FreeBSD, and those platforms (with three > minor exceptions) use the Standard spelling and type. > -GAWollman I can't tell if you've backed down from the removal or not. I've done a lot more in the Ports Collection than you have. I've seen tests for BSD that then use strtoq. Again, I see zero reason to purposely break existing programs for no good reason. This standardization and leave behind the BSD way has already caused me much pain WRT the GCC ports (and stock FSF sources). I don't need more. If we can add standardized functions w/o killing BSD'isms I'm all for them. But we cannot drop our BSD heritage. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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