From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mm: introduce pte_special pte bit In-Reply-To: <20080118180431.GA19591@uranus.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <20080118045649.334391000@suse.de> <20080118045755.516986000@suse.de> <20080118180431.GA19591@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: npiggin@suse.de, Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Jared Hulbert , Carsten Otte , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > One fundamental difference is that with the above syntax we always > compile both versions of the code - so we do not end up with one > version that builds and another version that dont. Yes, in that sense it tends to be better to use C language constructs over preprocessor constructs, since error diagnostics and syntax checking is improved. So yeah, I'll give you that it can be an improvement. It's just not what I was really hoping for. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org