Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:59:59 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? Message-ID: <3843D85F.959CDB2E@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911300236160.7938-100000@current1.whistle.com> <3843B509.7866F4CD@scc.nl>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > When did this come in? (I have been seeing it for a while but.. > > I thought this was to save space on the bootblocks, not the entire > > kernel?) > > Shortly after setting it for the bootblock. It breaks backward > compatibility and bogusly applies to the tools (xxx_genassym) as well. > As you can tell, I'm not quite happy with it... That's why we made world first and kernel later for so long, y'know. Changing userland "tools" to depend on new syscalls has always been a far more rare happening than changing kernel to depend on new userland tools. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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