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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:52:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= <groudier@club-internet.fr>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha interrupt.c machdep.c mp_mac
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010111115246.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101111912.f0BJCfs36487@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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On 11-Jan-01 Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>These variables are magic.  A developer can find out that they are magic in
>>on
>>e
>>of two ways:
>>
>>1) Use a special macro that acknowledges that they are magic, and have the
>>compile break if they don't so that they know there is something they need to
>>take into account.
>>
>>2) Go memorize all aforementioned headers to know that these variables are
>>magic.
> 
> There is no reason that for two to be the case.  We are only talking
> about a naming difference.  Having the headers cleaned up is a different
> argument.
> 
>>I prefer the interface 1) for this.  Do you prefer 2)?
> 
> I prefer "curproc" to PCPU_GET(curproc).  Curproc already tells me
> that this variable must be per-cpu.

How?  And does witness_spin_check tell you this, or astpending?  astpending
wasn't even per-CPU before the first SMPng commit.  How about common_tss?

> --
> Justin

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