On Dec 12, 2010, at 10:56 AM, David Young wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:18:12PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:02 AM, David Young wrote: >>> Why does this need to be #ifdef'd ? >> >> It doesn't but it never ever match on anything other >> than a PowerPC so why have the code when it can never >> be executed? > > IMO, it's not worth a few bytes' savings in instructions to clutter code > with conditional compilation.
And maybe that's why NetBSD kernels continue to bloat in size. Removing code from a kernel that could never be executed is a great use of condition compilation.
