David Powell wrote: > > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:09:33PM +1300, Ian Collins wrote: [snip] > > > Mostly we fixed all these that we found (and when building with gcc, > > > -xstrconst is effectively enabled by default). A few places we added > > > -fwritable-strings because we didn't own the code or the people who do > > > didn't want to go to the trouble of fixing it. > > > > > > I'll bet money there's still at least one SEGV from this lurking > > > somewhere in ON. > > > > I guess there may even be more around. But I don't think it's a good > > idea to make this a "blocker" for such an OS/Net tree-wide change. IMO > > it's better to do the change ASAP (with lots of PIT before the putback > > to make sure we get a useable system as result) because it would give us > > lots of time to find all the problems. > > A great way to phase this in, at least as far as the kernel is > concerned, is to enable this option for the debug build. People who > run debug bits do so often because they are willing to sacrifice a > little performance and (more appropriate to this situation) > reliability to find problems in the product. Once we are satisfied > we've worked out all the kinks, we can enable the option in the > standard build. > > You'll still need to do a lot of testing before you make such a > change, though. Many people use the debug builds (including some of > our big file servers), so even a debug build which has a reasonable > chance of panicking would be unacceptable.
Ok... are there any objections against such a plan ? --- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
