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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:06:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/gnu/ext2fs ext2_alloc.c ext2_balloc.c ext2_inode.c ext2_lookup.c ext2_subr.c ext2_vnops.c src/sys/i386/i386 busdma_machdep.c machdep.c pmap.c swtch.s trap.c vm86.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/i386/ibcs2 ibcs2_sysi86.
Message-ID:  <199802050306.WAA19161@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980205035631.28915@follo.net>
References:  <199802042234.OAA23694@freefall.freebsd.org> <199802050239.VAA19082@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19980205035631.28915@follo.net>

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<<On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 03:56:31 +0100, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> said:

> However, there are some uses of DIAGNOSTIC (e.g, in vm_zone.h) that require
> it to be enabled for corresponding C-files to get support routines. This
> implies that at least some people use it as a global option.  Perhaps the
> correct thing to do would be to split the option?

Well, the way I've always used it was to turn it on for just those
specific modules I was debugging.  That keeps the code perturbation
down to a minimum.  I think it's a safe bet that anybody who really
needs to use this option knows what he is doing and can deal with the
necessary choices involved.

-GAWollman

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