[Asterisk-bsd] Fwd: [asterisk-dev] [design] FreeBSD 4 compatibility (va_copy usage)

[John Todd]

Just FYI.  Please comment back on the -dev list if you'd like to  
continue the conversation.

JT


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
> Date: November 18, 2008 1:51:36 PM PST
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> Subject: [asterisk-dev] [design] FreeBSD 4 compatibility (va_copy  
> usage)
> Reply-To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com 
> >
>
> I'd like to remove FreeBSD 4 compatibility as of release 1.6.1.  The  
> reason
> for this is that FreeBSD 4 does not have the va_copy macro, which is  
> making
> programming a little difficult now.  Already, FreeBSD 4 is not  
> supported when
> you turn on MALLOC_DEBUG or when you use res_config_odbc, as va_copy  
> is
> required for these.
>
> For the record, FreeBSD is currently at release 7.0 and has had  
> va_copy since
> 5.0.  Also, va_copy was in the C99 standard, which we already  
> require for
> other purposes.  Does anybody have an issue with this design change?
>
> -- 
> Tilghman
>
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John Todd
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Asterisk Open Source Community Director