From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: mmazur@kernel.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:24:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040830002422.4b634c6c.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040830062856.GA10475@codepoet.org>
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:28:56 -0600
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> wrote:
> I really do not like this change. Since PAGE_SIZE has always
> been a constant, the change you have made is likely to break a
> fair amount of code, basically any code doing stuff like:
It has never been a constant, and any portable piece of
software needs to evaluate it not at compile time.
When I first did the sparc64 port, the biggest source of
portability problems was of the "uses PAGE_SIZE in some way"
nature.
This is a positive change, we should break the build of these
apps and thus get them fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-29 20:32 [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1 Mariusz Mazur
2004-08-30 6:28 ` Erik Andersen
2004-08-30 7:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-30 7:48 ` Erik Andersen
2004-08-30 8:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-30 8:43 ` Erik Andersen
2004-08-30 11:17 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-08-30 9:22 ` Andrew Walrond
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2004-08-30 13:36 Albert Cahalan
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