Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:33:48 -0800 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing some cruft... Message-ID: <e7db6d980812161933i51c906bdq39ba6421fd139275@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081216.131845.-1739986974.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20081216.131845.-1739986974.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > I was looking at the MIPS elf stuff based on a submission of some > 64-bit support. In doing so, I discovered a number of 'unused' types > that appear to have comments that indicate that they can be removed > now and were just slavishly copied from arch to arch to arch. > > /* > * The following non-standard values are used for passing information > * from John Polstra's testbed program to the dynamic linker. These > * are expected to go away soon. > * > * Unfortunately, these overlap the Linux non-standard values, so they > * must not be used in the same context. > */ > #define AT_BRK 10 /* Starting point for sbrk and brk. */ > #define AT_DEBUG 11 /* Debugging level. */ > > These have be slavishly copied to arm, powerpc, sparc64, ia64, mips, > sun4v and amd64. All these files have nearly identical comments > (except powerpc, which changes the value). [..] > So I'd like to remove all this stuff unless there's a compelling > reason to keep it. > > Can anybody think of a reason to keep it? It seems completely > non-functional... Remove it completely. It probably should never have been committed to the tree in the first place. In either case, it has been OBE for a good ~10 years. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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