Removing .name field

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Nov 2 17:06:00 CET 2004


Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov> writes:

> Eric,
> 
> Since you relaxed the 64kB limit. Why you still removed the .name field?
> We really want the field back in for debugging purpose.

No one has shown me a use or an example of a use.  I have simply heard
that the name field is a good thing.  

Show me how it would be used and I don't have a problem with not 
removing it.  As it simply looks totally like dead code to me.

In addition while I have relaxed the 64KiB limit I still want to watch
the code size.

Eric



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