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Date:      Tue, 3 May 2005 10:18:05 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        gerarra@tin.it
Subject:   Re: A question about /sys/kern/link_elf.c
Message-ID:  <200505031018.06023.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <427195400000512D@ims3a.cp.tin.it>
References:  <427195400000512D@ims3a.cp.tin.it>

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On Monday 02 May 2005 13:35, gerarra@tin.it wrote:
> >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."

It dates back to a tools problem that I had on the alpha where the 
linker would round up the size of the text segment to the next megabyte 
boundary.


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