On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 06:33:30PM -0400, Marc Tardif wrote:
> If anyone could point me in the right direction, and maybe even show me
> how I could've found the answer myself, I'd appreciate.
It's defined in /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h, among other places.
I found it with:
cd /usr/include
find . -name \*.h | xargs grep 'define.*__P'
(The regular expression given to grep matches "define", zero or more
other characters that we don't care about, then "__P".)
The intent of the macro is to allow the programmer to take advantage
of ANSI-style function prototypes (and the error checking they provide)
while not breaking the code on K&R compilers that don't support ANSI
prototypes.
I have no idea how much of the FreeBSD code would actually build on
a K&R compiler.
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