From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 30 8:33: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB0714D4F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11sqD9-00038h-00; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:33:04 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA54816; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:33:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <3843FC3E.1086B490@scc.nl> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:33:02 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel: -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 ?? References: <3843B509.7866F4CD@scc.nl> <3843D85F.959CDB2E@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > 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. And isn't it just a load of bollocks :-) > 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. Just remove the artificial dependencies, change building to suit the somewhat more restricted environment of cross-building and make some (in)significant adjustments in general and the problem is solved. It's not hard to do, you just need heavy boots and a strong mind :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message