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Re: CVS commit: src



On 2/17/12 5:58 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Julio Merino wrote:

On 2/17/12 5:45 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
So the modules are broken on purpose?

Yes.

Interesting.  If that's the case, shouldn't we break PAGE_SIZE for all 
platforms and keep things consistent?

For those with variable page sizes (like powerpc or mips), yes.

I was asking about *all* platforms regardless of whether they have static or variable page sizes. Keeping this inconsistent seems like a very easy way of writing non-portable code...

The modules that are broken (see the referenced PR for a list) fail due to a 
missing uvmexp_pagesize symbol (*not* PAGE_SIZE itself), which I assumed was 
there to prevent depending on the PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant.  I 
understand this information not being statically-available because of 
variable-page sizes in these platforms.

properly should use uvmexp.pagesize instead.

Aha, I see. Does it make sense to keep the test after renaming PAGE_SIZE to uvmexp.pagesize? It's a public symbol after all and we really should have tests for these, I think.

Do we need to go over the broken modules one by one and replace PAGE_SIZE with uvmexp.pagesize? (I'm expecting this won't be as easy as it sounds due to preprocessor conditionals et. al.)

Thanks!


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