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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