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Re: Controlling Patches
- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT Mailer)
- Subject: Re: Controlling Patches
- From: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- 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
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
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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