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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci
On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:56 AM, David Young wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:18:12PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:02 AM, David Young wrote:
>>> Why does this need to be #ifdef'd ?
>>
>> It doesn't but it never ever match on anything other
>> than a PowerPC so why have the code when it can never
>> be executed?
>
> IMO, it's not worth a few bytes' savings in instructions to clutter code
> with conditional compilation.
And maybe that's why NetBSD kernels continue to bloat in size.
Removing code from a kernel that could never be executed is a great
use of condition compilation.
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