On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 06:49:36PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 11:14:50AM +0400, Stefanus Du Toit wrote: > > I thought so, in any case, using __GNU__ is definitely not the Right > > Thing (unless you really can't do it otherwise). > > I wouldn't support such a blank statement, as there are several cases where > __GNU__ is not only fine but the correct thing to do. For one, it is the > right thing for software that is not feature based but OS based (sometimes > this happens, but more often it is a mixture of both, and then it gets > really ugly, see X). Then, it is good to use it for kludges to make > something work where it's really a bug in the Hurd.
Well, this is what I meant by "unless you really can't do it otherwise" - sorry for being so ambiguous :) > And sometimes it might be easier to use __GNU__ to enable Hurd specific > features, although autoconf checks for the Hurd libraries you use is better > of course. *nod* > I had to make a small retreat btw. In this particular case, I don't think > checking sysconf should be included in the patch. This is really something > you can leave to th authors if they want that. But using dynamic allocation > on all systems is usually fine, so why bother to check for a hard limit if > the code doesn't need one. Hm, the way I see it you shouldn't be crossing the sysconf() limits anyways, even if there's enough memory... but I might have misunderstood this. > [Insert usual boilerplate about VMWare not being free software here] Yes, *sigh*, this really bugs me. Ah well, it doesn't work well anyways and I've gotten rid of it again (making my system 100% free again). > I am watching plex86, and I think Yoshinori does, too, although probably > only as far as GRUB is concerned and not GNU Mach. I would like to try out > the latest version, which can run linux well, but plex86 does not work on > linux 2.4, which I have installed, so I have to wait. If someone has linux > 2.2, they could try out plex86 (www.plex86.com) CVS version and tell us how > far they come... well, I have the CVS version built on here. I'll be playing around with it. So far I've been playing around only a little with grub and some image files, but due to lack of time haven't really gotten into it. I'll try and get a kernel booted some time soon... > Thanks, > Marcus Thanks for your insight :) > -- > `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- Stefanus Du Toit sjdutoit at uwaterloo dot ca http://3.141593.org/ Please use GnuPG/PGP: http://3.141593.org/gpg/
