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Date:      Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:57:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include md_var.h src/sys/sys systm.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020228095749.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202271422310.97278-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On 27-Feb-02 Julian Elischer wrote:
> can you give a good reason?
> prototypes give teh acceptable arguments to a function
> bzero is allowed to zero volatile regions of memeory
> why shouldn't it be stated that this is the case..
> I hope you also fixed the errors this will cause in the tree now that hti
> sis a fatal error.

Ask Bruce as he is the main one who made me back it out in response to me
committing the change to machine/md_var.h which _you_ broke since you didn't
fix the warnings.  In any means, this shouldn't have been part of KSE/M2.

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> jhb         2002/02/27 14:12:29 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/i386/include     md_var.h 
>>     sys/sys              systm.h 
>>   Log:
>>   Back out part of KSE/M2 that snuck in under the radar: changing the
>>   prototype of bzero() on the i386 to have a volatile first argument.
>>   
>>   Requested by:   bde, jake
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.46      +2 -2      src/sys/i386/include/md_var.h
>>   1.162     +1 -1      src/sys/sys/systm.h
>> 
> 

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