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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:43:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > But I'd like to see resulting epic100.tmpl ;-).
> 
> When you have to maintain more than 10 "cookie cutter" net drivers that
> are 80-90% the same, you start to want such extremes :)

It's not necessarily a bad idea to have a more capable preprocessor than
the C preprocessor. I've cursed preprocessor limitations before, and I
there was some discussion about using m4 several years ago (and I mean
_several_ years ago - if I were to guess I'd say 6-8 years ago..).

		Linus

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