Re: [PATCH] moving F0 0F bug check to bugs.h

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2001 - 20:46:09 EST

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By author: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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>
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why the F0 0F bug check isn't in bugs.h?
>
> hpa moved it (And some others) during his 2.3.99 big cleanup of setup.c
> and friends.
>

bugs.h should die, ideally. There is no good reason the checking for
features and the checking for bugs is done using different mechanisms,
and the bugs.h mechanism is *MUCH* uglier. However, I was planning to
wait for 2.5 with that one.

-hpa

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