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on 12/07/2010 00:38 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 12/07/2010 00:15 Jeff Roberson said the following:
[snip]
>> I appreciate your analysis but I don't understand the motivation for
>> changing working code.
> 
> Primary reason is that the "working code" produces zero-sized unused/unnecessary

I think that my use of quotes was inappropriate in this sentence.
The code is indeed working, just with that certain side-effect.

> pcpu_set sections.  See the subject line.  As to why I care about those sections
> - please see the start of this thread.

-- 
Andriy Gapon