Re: [PATCH] Scalable CPU bitmasks

Russ Weight (rweight@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:44:51 -0800


Good point - I'll catch this at compile time. I'll resubmit shortly...

- Russ

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:42:59PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > > NOTE: The cpumap_to_ulong() and cpumap_ulong_to_cpumap() interfaces
> > > are provided specifically for migration. In their current
> > > form, they call BUG() if NR_CPUS is defined to be greater
> > > than the bit-size of (unsigned long).
> >
> > Why BUG? NR_CPUS is known at compile time, is there a reason why you
> > can't use a call to an undefined function in order to get a link time
> > error message? (like __bad_udelay in linux/asm-i386/udelay.h)
>
> why that, rather than #error ?
>
>

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Russ Weight (rweight@us.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
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