Re: [Firebird-devel] Commit

[Ann H. <har...@ne...>]

> >
> >     file = (expanded_string) ?
> >         ib_fopen (file_name, "w V Ds2 E32 S256000") :
> >         ib_fopen (file_name, "w V Ds2 E32 S256000 Te");
>
>I think I can shed some light over this one. If you look in what macro-scope
>it's defined, you'll notice 'mpexl'. It is proprietary stuff for an old HP
>OS

What's to explain?  My inclination to strip out all the MPE/XL code
as we find it - or better yet, pass the stripper program over the
sources and kill most of them automatically.  There's been discussion
around this - apparently HP has threatened to commit suicide by
reviving MPE/XL and, according to rumor, they have another, even worse
operating system.

My judgement is kill it.  The MPE/XL port has not been maintained in
a decade, it's a marginal market at best - we have mainstream markets
to conquer.  It's in the way and leads to confusion.  Kill it.

Part of the reason why gds.c is so huge is that it's service routines
and has huge amounts of conditional code for different platforms.

Cheers,

Ann