Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sparc

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jul 31,  8:51pm, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sparc

| christos@ wrote:
| 
| Why don't you guys (as core? or individual developer?) post
| an announcement that mentions benefit of -fno-common and
| ask Tier II users to fix possible fallout, before putting
| random MD fixes that would cause annoying silent hangs?

I can say the same for the port-masters who leave their ports
broken for days. But the benefits of -fno-common are pretty
obvious: mistakes like having char *foo in one file and int foo in
another, now will cause a build failure.

| For sparc, the correct place seems in sparc/autoconf.c:bootstrap().
| For sun2 it's sun2/locore2.c:_bootstrap().
| Most other m68k ports foo_init() for pre-main initialization.

It would be nice if the individual port-masters would proactively
check their ports so that they would remain buildable, and people
who have cross-port knowledge like you, would work to harmonize
these disparate and undocumented interfaces.

christos