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Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r205014 - in head: . sys/amd64/amd64 sys/amd64/conf
	sys/amd64/include sys/amd64/linux32 sys/compat/freebsd32
	sys/compat/ia32 sys/conf sys/fs/procfs sys/ia64/conf
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Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> writes:
> > COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
> > interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
> > "COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.
> This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided
> valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.

The committer who provided valuable time on this code was warned that
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 was probably the worst imaginable option and that it
would set off a bikeshed.

DES
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