Register keyword removal
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Aug 12 11:37:10 PDT 2003
:-On [20030812 12:42], Hiten Pandya (hmp at xxxxxxxx) wrote:
:> I had patches for removing *all* register keywords across the
:> FreeBSD base, sys; but they were rejected because everyone
:> thought of it as diff churn... oh well...
:
:Perhaps remove them when you encounter the files when you are working on
:things.
:
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:Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai
Personally speaking I like the kitchen sink approach for something
as simple as this. Get it done and over with, I say, so we can move
on to something else. The only thing I might try to avoid touching
would be 'contrib', but everything else is fair game.
And, yes, I also agree that DragonFly is in a unique position to be
able to do these sorts of mass changes with minimal disruption. But
even within the FreeBSD development base __P() and register keyword
removal would not present any significant disruption as long as it
were decreed by core to get around all the individual developer's
ownership and ego issues.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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