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FromMichael-Luke Jones <>
SubjectRe: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6
DateTue, 29 May 2007 09:08:27 +0100
On 28 May 2007, at 18:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> I have not seen any explanations:
> - Why did the upstream author write the code that way?

Apparently due to his requirement for extreme portability. The  
original code was designed to work on everything from 16-bit DOS  
through CRAY supercomputers through Windows, Unices and Linux.

The author has stated on the thread that it's a good idea to remove  
unnecessary ifdefs when porting the code into the kernel, given that  
the portability requirements are obviously no longer needed.

Michael-Luke
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