This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)
__builtin_classify_type() into harmless values, so that lint doesn't
get confused, think they're real functions, and that they're being
invoked in the wrong ways.
using __weak_alias in libc, __indr_reference should probably be defined
to do nothing (but defined, so that duplicate functions/variables aren't
compiled). However, when not using __weak_alias, __indr_reference causes
them to be omitted completely, which is a lose. So, until weak aliases
are going to be used, don't define __weak_alias or __indr_reference.
on indirect-config busses a (permanent) softc that they could share
between 'match' and 'attach' routines:
Define __BROKEN_INDIRECT_CONFIG so that old autoconfiguration
interfaces are used, until drivers are converted to use the new
interfaces (actually, converted back to use the _older_ interfaces)
which prohibit indirect configuration devices from receiving a softc
in their match routine that they can share with their attach routine.
rather than and-ing 16G-1. That just strips the k0seg bits, rather
than making the false assumption that the physical address is going
to be in the lower 16G. That doesn't apply for CIA device-space
addresses, for instance.
deleting (and cleaning up) N pages of #ifdefs in machdep.c. While we're
at it, make the cpu type options generate flags, and check them instead of
kernel Makefile defines.
create an assembly label, and SYSCALLNUM to convert a syscall name into
the macro that's defined to be its number. Add a CALLSYS_NOERROR macro
which invokes the named system call. (CALLSYS_NOERROR is here since
it's used in locore, for sigcode.)
cgd