Re: HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:02, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
In Message: <p06240804c7c4248d6354_at_[128.113.24.47]>

> At 12:59 PM -0600 3/12/10, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:22:55AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>>  > Yes it is.  Where was it discussed first?  I do not see anything
>>  > in my freebsd-arch or freebsd-current archive; or any other
>>  > FreeBSD list.
>> 
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4B971CA3.9090301
>> 
>> crossposted on amd64_at_, ia64_at_, emulation_at_.
>
>
> While those are logical mailing lists for this topic to have come
> up on, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that there are many
> freebsd users and committers who are not on those lists.  Many
> people who do know about the existing COMPAT_FREEBSD* variables,
> and thus will be surprised at this variable name.
>
> My understanding is that there has already been a lot of furor
> over this name, so let me first say I don't mean to infuriate
> anyone.  However, my own vote would be for some other name than
> COMPAT_FREEBSD32.
>
>

Perhaps COMPAT_ELF32 would be more well suited for this ?

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