Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:44:40 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> |
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On 6 Sep 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> However, what I think Al Viro dislikes about this is that it does tend > to leave code that won't compile, just because some of the accesses are > in places that the compiler doesn't see due to the pre-processor (or due > to other build-rules: like in architectures that aren't the one that the > developer uses).
Add "and that broken code gets fixed in utterly bogus ways 20 versions down the road, when nobody remembers WTF had happened". Repeat several times (and rarely-used parts _will_ accumulate such crap) and you've got Lovecraftian beasts lurking in the tree. To some extent it's inevitable, but frequency of such events matters...
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