From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308162158.GA5702@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org>
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:08:52PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> No, no no. We should never export PAGE_SIZE. We might export NBPG
> as deprecated symbol for gdb if it really needs it, but that should
> happen only on a.out systems, and it it should be a true constant,
> not depending on PAGE_SIZE.
>
> I've Cc'ed the gdb list on whether they have any comments on this
> issue.
Sounds reasonable. I do not believe that GDB has any dependence on
PAGE_SIZE; bfd (i.e. both gdb and binutils) use NBPG on a large number
of systems. Looks like i386, alpha, m68k, s390, vax - but don't quote
me on that, I had to guess from the configure script.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 16:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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2007-03-08 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 16:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-03-08 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 17:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 17:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 18:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:44 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:47 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:48 ` David Miller
2007-03-09 2:44 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-09 4:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <20070308.202718.68040662.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-09 4:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-09 4:36 ` David Miller
2007-03-21 2:12 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-21 2:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:04 ` David Brown
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