Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:33:02 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? Message-ID: <3843FC3E.1086B490@scc.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300236160.7938-100000@current1.whistle.com> <3843B509.7866F4CD@scc.nl> <3843D85F.959CDB2E@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > When did this come in? (I have been seeing it for a while but.. > > > I thought this was to save space on the bootblocks, not the entire > > > kernel?) > > > > Shortly after setting it for the bootblock. It breaks backward > > compatibility and bogusly applies to the tools (xxx_genassym) as well. > > As you can tell, I'm not quite happy with it... > > That's why we made world first and kernel later for so long, y'know. And isn't it just a load of bollocks :-) > Changing userland "tools" to depend on new syscalls has always been > a far more rare happening than changing kernel to depend on new > userland tools. Just remove the artificial dependencies, change building to suit the somewhat more restricted environment of cross-building and make some (in)significant adjustments in general and the problem is solved. It's not hard to do, you just need heavy boots and a strong mind :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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