svn commit: r228469 - in head/sys: amd64/include arm/include i386/include ia64/include mips/include ofed/include/asm powerpc/include sparc64/include

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Tue Dec 13 14:05:56 UTC 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Tue Dec 13 13:38:03 2011
> New Revision: 228469
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/228469
> 
> Log:
>   Replace __signed by signed.
>   
>   The signed keyword is an integral part of the C syntax. There's no need
>   to use __signed.

For what it's worth, I believe __signed and __const were intended
to support gcc's -traditional flag, which was needed to get some
pre-ANSI programs to compile.  But any vestiges of pre-ANSI
support probably rotted a long time ago, and the -traditional
option isn't supported anymore in gcc.


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