Re: BSD Fragmentation
Rich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes: >> Even developing software to port between BSD variants is not >> completely straightforward. Look at this >> <https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdread/-/compare/e149111f8f69ef291e4d8c166527257c3c86cea4...337c1519ed6ecdd123b07c56d0aceda169b6ae61>: >> >> #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__GLIBC__) >> ... >> #elif defined(__APPLE__) >> ... >> #elif defined(__NetBSD__) >> ... >> #elif defined(__OpenBSD__) >> ... >> #elif defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 470000 >> ... >> #elif defined(__DragonFly__) >> ... >> #elif defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__sun) || defined(__bsdi__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__BEOS__) || defined(__OS2__) >> ... >> >> All the Linux distros work the same. But every single flavour of BSD >> seems to do things differently. > > Are you incapable of reading diffs, or is your case so weak you have to > rely on misleading examples? The link actually shows the removal of most > of the per-platform variation, creating the situation shown at: > > https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdread/-/blob/master/src/bswap.h?ref_type=heads > > ...where there is zero variation between the BSDs. > > (It could actually be simplified further: competent compilers generate > bswap or rotate instructions for the L49-51 macros, meaning there is no > real need to bother with the compiler intrinsics. See > https://godbolt.org/z/89h6zvr4Y.) You fell for one of Lawrence's many troll posts. How capable he is of reading diffs we don't know, but posting intentionally misleading material to support an opposite point is par for the course for a great many trolls.