svn commit: r306325 - head/usr.bin/mkimg

Conrad Meyer cem at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 26 00:20:36 UTC 2016


On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> On September 25, 2016 at 4:52:17 PM, Conrad Meyer (cem at freebsd.org) wrote:
>
> > What's the motivation for this? This seems worse.
>
> Portability.  We need mkimg to compile on other OSes besides FreeBSD.  In
> particular, macOS and Linux.  It’s ok that constructors are not 100%
> portable…

That makes sense, thanks.  It would be good to include that motivation
in the commit message, then I don't ask stupid questions like this.
:-)

Best,
Conrad


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