On 13 Mar 2010, at 11:53, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org>
wrote:
On 12 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Author: nwhitehorn
Date: Thu Mar 11 14:49:06 2010
New Revision: 205014
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205014
Log:
Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86
platforms,
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the
COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from
MI
parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to
support
big-endian platforms.
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
"COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.
There's a lengthy discussion about this on another mailing list.
This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who
provided
valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.
So the user - the person to whom the software is made, theoretically -
don't have the right to disagree when he sees a change that looks
confusing "because the committers's time is too valuable". Sorry, I
was not aware of that policy. Please forgive my audacity. Keep in mind
that we, the users, are a bunch of idiots that don't like to become
astonished by sudden changes in the meaning of the symbols that we use
to see. Thanks God we have you, the holly committers to protect us
from our own ignorance.
You said that, I didn't. Please refrain from distorting my own words.
If you want something discussed, do it on the other list and, please,
do it with a grown up attitude because, quite frankly, what you wrote
doesn't make sense.
Thank you,
--
Rui Paulo
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