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JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:40:02 +0900,
> >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> >> When KAME was added the mesh was less that perfect but there was so much to
> >> be done that some shortcuts needed to be taken.
> >>
> >> now that time has passed some of these can be cleaned up.
> >>
> >> 1/ Merging ipprotosw.h and protosw.h
> >> 2/ removal of all varargs stuff from the kernel
> >> (this revealing the mismatched prototypes they were hiding)
> >> removal of lotso warnings from the KAME stuff.
>
> > the change does add pain to KAME integration side on upgrades.
> > note that KAME codebase uses the same code across multiple *BSDs.
> > please don't do this.
If other BSDs WANT varargs for this they are crazier than I thought.
>
> I tend to agree with itojun. Although I understand FreeBSD guys want
> to make code from KAME cleaner in terms of FreeBSD's own point of
> view, it will make future merge from KAME to FreeBSD harder. This is
> a trade-off issue, but at this moment, I think we'll still need
> further merge from KAME to FreeBSD, so I'd prefer keeping the code "as
> is" for a while.
>
Although I understand KAME guys want
to make code from KAME cleaner in terms of KAME's own point of
view, it will make future merge from Almost anywhere else to FreeBSD harder.
varargs is not an acceptable solution. please find some other method.
(make a macro start that is defined differently for each platform for example).
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