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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: NBPG (sys/param.h)
In-Reply-To: <199610160810.KAA17147@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 16, 96 10:10:40 am"
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:38:43 +0100 (MET)
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> As Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > I found that building choked on trad-core.c with NBPG (number of bytes
> > per page or something close to that).
> > 
> > Discussion in some gnu list revealed that it reportedly (someone at cygnus
> > commented to me) had been in 2.0.5 <sys/param.h>. 

That was <machine/param.h> btw. (which is included into sys/param.h.

> 
> Use getpagesize() or PAGE_SIZE from <sys/param.h>.  There were too
> many names for one and the same thing.

Have to tell that to the binutils maintainers.

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de