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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:01:43 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        james@jraynard.demon.co.uk, nate@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386/1334
Message-ID:  <199606191101.VAA11606@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> I applied the fix you submitted, slightly edited.  Instead of:
>> 
>> #options               "MAXMEM=131072"
>> 
>> I used:
>> 
>> #options               "MAXMEM=128*1024"
>> 
>> And also explained used this number in the comments.

>Thanks! I was going to just make the change myself, but decided it was
>better if someone else had a look at it. Your version is definitely
>better (I didn't even realise you could do it like that!)

It's just a macro.  Macro expressions should be fully parenthesized!
It happens that MAXMEM is only used in the expression MAXMEM/4, so
the sloppy definition works.  0x1000000/MAXMEM wouldn't work.

Bruce



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