i386/54963: Left over/outdated comment in NOTES
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Sun Jul 27 23:21:51 PDT 2003
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Philipp Mergenthaler wrote:
> >Description:
> When the math emulators were removed in version 1.1091, one comment line
> remained.
>
> Index: NOTES
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v
> retrieving revision 1.1091
> diff -u -r1.1091 NOTES
> --- NOTES 22 Jul 2003 08:11:15 -0000 1.1091
> +++ NOTES 27 Jul 2003 22:10:20 -0000
> @@ -188,7 +188,6 @@
>
> # Debug options
> options NPX_DEBUG # enable npx debugging (FPU/math emu)
> - #new math emulator
>
Also, the parenthetical comment remained. I use this patch:
%%%
Index: NOTES
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES,v
retrieving revision 1.1091
diff -u -0 -r1.1091 NOTES
--- NOTES 22 Jul 2003 08:11:15 -0000 1.1091
+++ NOTES 25 Jul 2003 20:49:01 -0000
@@ -190,2 +195 @@
-options NPX_DEBUG # enable npx debugging (FPU/math emu)
- #new math emulator
+options NPX_DEBUG # enable npx debugging
%%%
This is not exactly an improvement, since the comment now just echoes
the code. Perhaps no comment is correct. Anyone debugging NPX doesn't
need to be reminded that it is i486speak for FPU.
Bruce
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