Lyndon wrote: > In the cleanup I'm doing I'm getting rid of the wrapper functions > that exist only to contain OS portability issues. That's much > smaller subset of the original list that was posted.
Mike wrote: # frankly, in large systems i've written, NO code # outside a very limited library was allowed to # do anything that looked or smelled like it # would result in a system call. (this specifically # includes storage allocation, too) that has saved # many, many man-hours porting code or re-purposing it. # it also makes for self-contained debugging which # doesn't rely upon having a working debugger on # a new platform (or one you can't use - same thing). I prefer the latter. The cost is pretty much nil and the benefits can be significant, and recurring. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
