annoying machine dependencies

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In article <11551 at brl-tgr.ARPA> craig at LOKI.ARPA (Craig Partridge) writes:
>
>[Mild Flame]
>
>    I've recently been getting a spate of 4.2 sources which are
>unnecessarily VAX dependent.  Byte ordering dependencies, asm()'s
>and minor sillyness like including "/sys/vax/XXX.h" instead
>"/sys/machine/XXX.h".  (Before someone screams about this,
>many of the .h files in /sys/vax are actually not very
>different from those in /sys/sun on SUNs -- I can't claim
>true knowledge for other 4.2 machines).
>
>    Right now I know of at least 5 machines running 4.2
>(Vaxen, Pyramids, SUNs, Integrated Solutions, Tektronix
>workstations).  It would be nice if authors of 4.2 sources
>would keep this in mind.
>
>Craig Partridge
>craig at bbn-loki (ARPA)
>craig%loki.arpa at csnet-relay (CSNET)
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