[PATCH] Purge macros NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2010-07-01 at 07:09 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: 
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Don, 2010-07-01 at 06:41 -0300, Fernando Carrijo wrote: 
> >> Thus spake Alan Coopersmith, when questioned about NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES:
> >>
> >>   "Long long ago,  X was built on  computers with 4Mb RAM. The  amount of memory
> >>    used for the parse tables was large and if you didn't need it, then you saved
> >>    time & memory  #ifdef'ing out the bits you didn't  need. Plus, some compilers
> >>    sucked, life was hard, and the bits  had to be rolled uphill in the snow both
> >>    ways. In other  words, ancient history that can be  deleted now unless you're
> >>    really building a 15+ year old release."
> >>
> >> This reviewer-friendly series of patches aims to purge both macros.
> > 
> > Which module(s) used to check for these defines, and when were those
> > checks removed? 
> 
> x11proto, X11R6.3 (1996)
> 
> > At least the xf86-*-vm* drivers can still be built and
> > used with pretty old releases of X.
> 
> X11R6.3 would be several releases older than the XFree86 4.0 module loader,
> so that shouldn't be a problem.

Indeed, thanks for clarifying this. No objections then.


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