HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32
Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
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Wed Mar 24 00:55:20 UTC 2010
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On 24.03.2010 01:49, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> 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.
It may. But having a confusing directive (the COMPAT_FREEBSD32 vs
COMPAT_FREEBSD[4567]) is likely to stay with us for a long, long, long
time. Just like the scarring after a bullet wound to the foot.
//Svein
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