From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: stop using P_, __P in header files Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:56:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278061008 22180 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2010 08:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 02 10:56:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUc3C-0001w9-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:56:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59391 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUc3B-0003h9-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48025 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUc35-0003h4-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUc34-0004Ou-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:36205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUc31-0004OM-7I; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1540F1C158EB; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hase.home (ppp-88-217-125-179.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.125.179]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B5E1C0008A; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I hope you millionaires are having fun! I just invested half your life savings in yeast!! In-Reply-To: (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:16:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126683 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > The first step for the transition could be to remove all P_ and __P > (and maybe other variations) macros in header files. Another desired standard C feature would be to use memcpy/memset/memcmp throughout instead of the non-standard bcopy/bzero/bcmp. I have a patch for that, but it is incomplete in that it breaks profiling builds. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."