On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 m...@freebsd.org wrote: > >> There appear to be 330 uses of SYSCTL and QUAD on the same line in >> CURRENT. This seems reasonable to change them to S64, U64 and X64 so >> they correctly reflect the size they operate upon. >> >> What do y'all think? > > Now I suggest delaying this until they can be renamed to a type- generic > SYSCTL_INT() (would probably need to be spelled differently, SYSCTL_I() > say, even if SYSCTL_INT() was changed at the same time).
I'm torn on this one. The compiler knows the type (unless, for SYSCTL_INT, NULL/0 is used, but that is also a compile-time check), but to interpret it requires the use of __builtin_foo which is a gcc extension and not part of standard C. Philosophically, while I like this kind of letting the compiler do the work, if you want C++ you know where to find it. Thanks, matthew _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
