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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:20:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Uncle Flatline <flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu>
Cc:        Uncle Flatline <flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu>, quimica.ufpr.br@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compile my kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980211101839.1284E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980211120935.13206C-100000@gri.gallaudet.edu>

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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Uncle Flatline wrote:

> > I thought math wasn't permitted in an option.  Does that actually spit out
> > the right thing? 
> 
> I THOUGHT it did... What's the best way to check?  And if it DOESN'T do the
> right thing, why have it in LINT, when
> 
> options    MAXMEM=131072     # 131072 = (128*1024) = 128M

I've known people to have problems with the system not recognizing the
math version but working fine with the integer.  YMMV. You can check it by
compiling a kernel one way, thn the other and see if it finds all your
RAM.

> would get the point across?  (This is why god invented comments.)  Or is this
> another one of those things like having a chsh that drops unencrypted
> passwords in the passwd file?  ;-) 

Don't go there. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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