Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou), dg@root.com, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel traps on boot.. Message-ID: <12306.908521213@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:02:23 PDT." <199810160602.XAA00878@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> causes "diagnostic panics" is not a popular option. If the code was on > a reasonably common path, it would prevent developers working on > unrelated issues from doing anything useful until the problem was > resolved (and possibly slow the adoption of the resolution). This I have to agree with this. I've been tracking NetBSD-current on my alpha as well, and the amount of time the tree doesn't build because someone turned -Werror on in the name of pursuing some abstract goal of perfection is just silly. OK, I used a world like "silly" and Jason is going to flame me for that, but I really can't think of a better term. I finally gave up on trying to build NetBSD-current sources because it was just too difficult from day to day and if I'm trying to sync up with someone else's work, the last thing I want to have to spend time on is prowling through the Makefiles trying to find and stomp out the overzealous compiler flags. To quote someone from history: The better should never become the enemy of the good. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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