Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:25:52 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com> Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, dyson@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include endian.h Message-ID: <199612070525.VAA01018@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Dec 1996 13:11:47 %2B0800." <199612070511.NAA27272@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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>"John S. Dyson" wrote: >> > >> > Most of the kernel doesn't pick up the CPU options. >> > >> Why not? That seems to be unwise, shouldn't anything with any >> cpu specific inlines also pick-up the CPU options? Anything >> that uses endian.h (or cpufunc.h) are perfect examples of where >> there might be some value in that. >> >> John > >Perhaps we should seriously consider using 'cc -include opt_global.h' and >moving things like Ix86_CPU etc into there? It has the benefits of having >every file know about the settings, but without having to modify every file. I'd rather see a #include added to cpufunc.h, which is included by systm.h, which is included by everything (?) in the kernel. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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