Re: [PATCH] x86: relocs is only used with 32bit

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > In general I prefer minimizing the conditional sections rather than
> > maximizing them.  If nothing else, it catches errors earlier that way,
> > and makes it easier to eventually eliminate them entirely.
>
> Makes sense.  Although in this case that rule appears like it
> can't even execute on x86_64.

That's fine.  This is the same reason why it's better to have
if () { ... } than #ifdef as long as the condition can be statically 
determined -- at least this way make will complain about a syntax error.

	-hpa
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