Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

From: Daniel Jacobowitz
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 11:46:25 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:08:52PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> No, no no. We should never export PAGE_SIZE. We might export NBPG
> as deprecated symbol for gdb if it really needs it, but that should
> happen only on a.out systems, and it it should be a true constant,
> not depending on PAGE_SIZE.
>
> I've Cc'ed the gdb list on whether they have any comments on this
> issue.

Sounds reasonable. I do not believe that GDB has any dependence on
PAGE_SIZE; bfd (i.e. both gdb and binutils) use NBPG on a large number
of systems. Looks like i386, alpha, m68k, s390, vax - but don't quote
me on that, I had to guess from the configure script.

--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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