Re: kern/43063: Please delete __NetBSD_Prereq__() from <sys/param.h>

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/43063; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/43063: Please delete __NetBSD_Prereq__() from
        <sys/param.h>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:31:11 +0000

 On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:10:06PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  We could instead provide both variants as
  >  
  >    __NetBSD_older_than__(maj,min) /* NetBSD older than maj.min */
  >  
  >  and
  >  
  >    __NetBSD_newer_than__(maj,min) /* NetBSD maj.min or newer */
  >  
  >  if there realy is a need for such a test in pkgsrc world. Pkgsrc folks?
 
 In general I don't think there is. But we ought to provide these
 anyway because the alternative is inspecting the bit representation of
 __NetBSD_Version__ and it'd be just as well to avoid/discourage that.
 
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 David A. Holland
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