From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29210 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2007 17:09:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 29198 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2007 17:08:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from terminus.zytor.com (HELO terminus.zytor.com) (192.83.249.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:08:48 +0000 Received: from [172.27.0.16] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l28H5mGc009344 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:05:49 -0800 Message-ID: <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:09:00 -0000 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Roman Zippel , David Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency References: <9c21eeae0703051555x1884fd7cse7968a71ec04eb27@mail.gmail.com> <20070306092917.GA5226@infradead.org> <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20070308090031.GB7373@infradead.org> <1173369229.3550.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Status: Clean Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 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. By the way, it's a massive snafu that the swap area magic number is dependent on PAGE_SIZE. There is absolutely no good reason for that. -hp