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[John-Mark Gurney]

Hans Petter Selasky wrote this message on Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 12:48 +0200:
> My gut feeling is it's good practice to have those wrapper macros 
> because they isolate the compiler into a consistent and coherent API. 

Except that we now have a consistent and coherent API w/
_Static_assert...  We emulate this function on all compilers (or at least
try to, see bde's other email about issues w/ the ifdef mess), and
is available to both userland and kernel...  It will also be available
on other platforms, as opposed to having to port our CTASSERT macros
to other platforms and introduce #ifdef's to make it compatible...

> Wouldn't the argument be the same for queue.3 . Once C-compilers finally 
> decide to compile time support queues, we should throw queue.3 aswell? 
> I'd say it is better to stay independent of what the compiler guys will 
> come up with next, reminding me how hard it was to upgrade a machine 
> recently from 9- to 10- because of C++11 ....

Last I checked, they don't change their API's ever revision of the
langauge...

Comparing this to C++11?  Just wow, see above how this is properly
covered by the ifdef mess in sys/cdefs.h for all compilers, this won't
introduce any complications like the C++11...

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