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- From: thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: bug in util/tickadj.c on MIPS RISCos
- Message-ID: <9301060853.AA17932@tyr.diku.dk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 08:53:12 GMT
- References: <9301060102.AA18395@seidc.sei.com>
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Guntram,
-
- I am not quite sure what has happened in the tickadj source, but in my
- older copy that error message is inside '#ifdef sun' --- in fact, on
- non-Suns it gives an error if you use the -p option. I am almost
- certain that this is _not_ a local change.
-
- There is a considerable amount of unnecessarily complex AUX hackery
- involving the kernel namelist. I do not see the why there has to be a
- differently named, but essentially identical list of offsets to use
- with the AUX namelist --- it just leaves out K_DOSYNC and K_NOPRINTF,
- and includes an **unused** X_V. The static initializer evidently
- works, so why not just use '#ifdef' to get the right names in there?
- There is no harm in looking for extra stuff, and if the "v" variable
- really is necessary, it can be added to the global list and ignored on
- all other systems.
-
- Could the person that sent in the AUX changes enlighten us as to the
- reasons? And where did the '#ifdef sun's go?
-
- Can anybody confirm, by the way, that frobbing the kernel _noprintf
- variable is interesting iff defined(sun)?
-
- Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@diku.dk> (Humour NOT marked)
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