HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 00:49:54 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, jhell <jhell at dataix.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:42, deischen@ wrote:
>>
>> [ Some CC's stripped ]
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> P.S.  I think that there's much traction to the idea of moving from
>>> COMPAT_FREEBSDx to some other variable called, for example,
>>> COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=x, which will give compatibility for binaries
>>> as old as FreeBSD x.0, and have all the other magic handled behind the
>>> scenes.  This would render the inconsistency with COMPAT_FREEBSDx part
>>> of the debate completely moot.
>>
>> Doesn't matter.  We're still use to COMPAT_FREEBSDx since
>> it's been here so long.  So regardless if you rename them
>> to COMPAT_FREEBSD_BACK_TO=x, it is still potentially confusing.
>>
>> COMPAT_ARCH32 and all other choices David mentions seem like
>> much better names - even if there wasn't any existing
>> COMPAT_FREEBSDx knobs.
>>
>> My $0.02.
>>
>>
>
>
> Ill say it again if I have to... COMPAT_ELF32 or possibly even ELF32_SUPPORT
> seems to me as a very likely possibility.
>
> Maybe even:
> SUPPORT_ELF32=          # Support for 32 Bit ELF Binaries
>
> This would add its own name structure that is expandabe later-in-future when
> 128 Bit systems come out ;)

ELF may go away sometime, just like a.out went to the holly pastures.

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