Subject: Re: failed to compile new ./lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/04/1999 14:20:53
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:24:15 -0700 (PDT)
David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> wrote:
> Since the sparc port has a variable pagesize, PGSHIFT is
> determined in terms of a kernel variable pgshift. This really does
> not help userland though.
>
> We _could_ make it conditional on a sysctl, but that would involve
> lots of extra calculation in the malloc() code - there are quite a
> few other variables that would switch from compile time definition
> to runtime calcuation.
Actually, this needs to be done at run-time. Otherwise, binary
compatibility between different-page-size m68k ports is busted, too.
I plan on doing this soon.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>