On Thursday 03 February 2005 04:11, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I'm about to de-__P /usr/include. I've talked to a number of people
> and the general consensus is that there is no longer any point in
> maintaining it. We were originally keeping it around largely so that
> NetBSD could be compiled on pre-ANSI compilers for bootstrap purposes
> during porting, but NetBSD has long since been switching to ANSI and
> will no longer compile on such a compiler anyway. Also, we now have a
> cross build infrastructure.
>
> To dispel one misconception in advance, this does not make it harder
> to compile old K&R code -- it can still be compiled just fine under
> any ANSI compiler such as the one we ship (gcc).
>
> FYI, FreeBSD seems to have long since de-__P'ed /usr/include as well.

Sorry for my ignorance but what is the history and goals of __P() macro? What 
for it was intended/used in general?

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