Tyson D Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> > On 4 Feb 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> >>Grr.  Somehow I suspect I did that.  I guess I would have suspected
> >>that if you had gotten any output and the boot didn't work.
> >>
> >>Any clue why that happened?
> >>
> > it's all part of the changeover from
> > option blah
> > to
> > option blah=1
> > This changeover affects every .h and .c that uses
> > #ifdef blah
> > instead of
> > #if (blah == 1)
> 
> 
> 
> Why was this change made?  What is the advantage?

We can put the conditionals at the makefile level instead of at the
#ifdef level.  The file level is usually cleaner.  The problem
is mostly we are doing a gradual conversion and we forget the issue of
needing to make certain the variable is set to a non-null value.

Eric

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