Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

[H. Peter Anvin]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> No, no no.  We should never export PAGE_SIZE.  We might export NBPG
> as deprecated symbol for gdb if it really needs it, but that should
> happen only on a.out systems, and it it should be a true constant,
> not depending on PAGE_SIZE.
>
> I've Cc'ed the gdb list on whether they have any comments on this
> issue.

By the way, it's a massive snafu that the swap area magic number is 
dependent on PAGE_SIZE.  There is absolutely no good reason for that.

	-hp
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