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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xperfmon on Sparc1 problem (Was: R4 contrib problems)
Message-ID: <2949@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 18 Feb 90 02:52:09 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Foo.  You don't have to apply all the patches from the R3 xperfmon, you just
>have to #ifdef the call to read_names if you're running on a SPARCstation.

1) do you mean "SPARCStation" or "SPARCStation-1"?  I don't think the
   other SPARCStations have SBuses, so I'd expect the "read_names()"
   code to work on them.

2) even if you *did* mean "SPARCStation", "#ifdef sparc" isn't the
   #ifdef you want, since that'll #ifdef the code out on *any* machine
   with a SPARC processor, including all Sun-4s, Solbournes, etc..

Assuming it really *can* function with no "disk init info", the proper
fix might simply be to, at least in the "#ifdef sun" case, have
"read_names()" not bomb out if it can't find "mbdinit"....