Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:24:22 -0700 | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.8.1 |
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:28:56 -0600 Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> wrote:
> I really do not like this change. Since PAGE_SIZE has always > been a constant, the change you have made is likely to break a > fair amount of code, basically any code doing stuff like:
It has never been a constant, and any portable piece of software needs to evaluate it not at compile time.
When I first did the sparc64 port, the biggest source of portability problems was of the "uses PAGE_SIZE in some way" nature.
This is a positive change, we should break the build of these apps and thus get them fixed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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