Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:27:10 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-current-stable ??? Message-ID: <21857.819289630@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Dec 1995 04:14:03 PST." <199512181214.EAA00230@corbin.Root.COM>
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> >But anyway, here goes: I intend to continue to isolate the scope of > >variables as far as I can get it. This may from time to time make > >a custom kernel uncompilable, as my test-set is GENERIC and LINT. > > Please don't lose sight of the fact that changes like this can very easily > introduce new bugs. Our linker doesn't complain about multiple declarations > of a common symbol...so if these exist, making variables that are supposed to > be common into private/static will introduce "interesting" new bugs. I am very careful. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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