style(9) manpage __P removal

Kip Macy kmacy at fsmware.com
Mon Sep 22 17:47:06 PDT 2003


Speaking of style how do people feel about K&R declarations?
I'm wondering if I'm the only one that thinks that retaining
them is silly.

				-Kip

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, David Rhodus wrote:

>
> On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 06:12 PM, ibotty wrote:
>
> > this is a __P, that David Rhodus seems to have overlooked ;)
> >
> > seriously, we should update the style(9) manpage to reflect our
> > dislike to
> > __P.
> > my wording is surely not manpage-compliant, but this may be a start.
>
> Looks nice to me. It is ridicules to keep the __P() around. In the past
> no one would take the time to remove them from the source and in the
> traditional FreeBSD way if someone its was quickly rejected. The reason
> I've started to take the time as I'm working on being able to compile
> the
> source tree with compilers other than gcc(1). The current one I'm
> working
> with makes a lot of noise when encountering these little buggers.
>
> -DR
>
>





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