Re: Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE

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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Date
24 Mar 2007 22:00:44
Subject
Re: Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE
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20070324220041.GI847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org

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On 2007-Mar-24 15:32:00 +0100, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
>>I'd like to have this enabled by default, and I know there should be no
>>strong objections.
>
>I agree -- the memory used by it is very small compared to the amount of
>memory in modern systems, and the potential administrative benefit is very
>large. As long as it remains an option, the embedded folk can turn it off
>easily.

Ideally, we would include it in a .comment section that wasn't loaded.
Unfortunately my ELF-foo isn't up to this (I've tried something similar
many years ago and couldn't get the linker to DWIW).

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Peter Jeremy


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