Re: HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:42, deischen_at_ wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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 ;)

Regards,

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  jhell