Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1

David S. Miller
2004-08-30T07:25:17Z

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.