Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

From: Benedict Bridgwater (bennyb@ntplx.net)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 21:06:51 EDT

  • Next message: Miles Lane: "Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files"

    > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
    > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
    > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.
    >
    > This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler
    > would throw an undefined-symbol warning on BLK_DEV_ST. The temptation
    > to engage in sarcastic commentary at the expense of people who still
    > think CML2 is an unnecessary pain in the butt is great. But I will
    > restrain myself. This time.

    So a shortcoming of the CML1 tools justifies the CML2 language?

    I guess the next bug found in the Python2 interpreter will justify
    writing CML3 in FORTRAN.

    Ben
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