From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 12:35:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2628316A4D0 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 12:35:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vsmtp2.tin.it (vsmtp2alice.tin.it [212.216.176.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3764D43D3F for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 12:35:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerarra@tin.it) Received: from ims3a.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.103) by vsmtp2.tin.it (7.0.027) id 4272A050000C4C70 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:35:42 +0200 Received: from [192.168.70.181] by ims3a.cp.tin.it with HTTP; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:35:41 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:35:41 +0200 Message-ID: <427195400000512D@ims3a.cp.tin.it> In-Reply-To: <1fa17f8105050101464489a09@mail.gmail.com> From: gerarra@tin.it To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: 151.100.38.110 Subject: RE: A question about /sys/kern/link_elf.c X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:35:45 -0000 >There is a "#ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING" at line 701,and again a "#ifdef >SPARSE_MAPPING" at line 713.I just can't understand the second >one.Does it have any special mean ? > >thanks . It's just conditional compiling construct...however as you can see in the= tag "For whatever reason, SPARSE_MAPPING is not even a config option, so this is dead code." bye, rookie