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- Subject: Re: Controlling Patches
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 02:09:41 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <m0qItwB-0000TSC@sdf.lonestar.org> from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jun 29, 94 02:20:00 am
- From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Evan K. Langlois writes:
-
- > Would it be easier to debug mint if the patches that are sent in are
- > #ifdef'd into the code? So that you could compile with -DMEGA_PATCH
- > -DEXCEPTION_PATCH or something, that way you can see which patch is breaking
- > the system. Of course, a million #ifdefs is a pain and would probably
- > solve more problems than it is worth.
-
- If they would solve more problems than it's worth, I would immediately
- start putting in some #ifdef's here and there...
-
- Seriously, I don't think think that #ifdef's would help a lot. So far
- it has always been quite clear which patch broke the code. And, as you
- correctly pointed out, they are a pain to maintain...
-
- Michael
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