In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > : It's not CVSup, it's Modula-3. It thinks it knows that stdin, > : stdout, and stderr are defined as above, but they're not any more. > : Because Modula-3 isn't C and doesn't use C header files, it cannot > : automatically track such changes like C programs do. > > Gotcha. I'm thinking very seriously about keeping __sF support (but > creating no new binaries with it in it) and the freeze on sizeof(FILE) > through the 5.x series of releases because we botched the > compatibility stuff so badly to give people a chance to catch their > breaths before that reorg can happen.
I'm kind of on the fence about it. The point of hiding __sF is to remove all dependencies on the size of the FILE structure from applications, and that's a very worthwhile thing to do. Modula-3 is a special case (and a pathological one), and it shouldn't influence the decision too much. I don't think there's a way to fix it entirely in the OS without re-establishing the dependency on the size of FILE. We are lucky that ezm3 just happens to work. The PM3 port can be fixed with a 5.0-specific patch or two, but ... not today. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
