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Subject: Re: Q.. Have A?
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In article <3A35277C.471E87F7@linux.it>, paolino  <paolino@linux.it> wrote:
>I'm trying to modify the mm so i can compact memory and give bigger
>'holes' to processes. My problem is i can't compile: make gives a lot of
>errors, also in files i never edited...

I think it would help the rest of us greatly to give some more details.
What, exactly, are you making?  What errors were produced?  What files?
Do they still occur if you attempt to compile a source tree which isn't
modified in any way?

Sometimes, certain errors in header files are only observed quite a bit
after the headers have been included--for instance, a typo in a #define
will not show up until the macro is actually used and expanded, or some
missing punctuation at the end of an included file will often produce a
problem at the next statement (either the first of the next include, or
in the file which does the inclusion).  Errors of these sorts can often
be extremely difficult to track down.

-- 
Andrew Erickson
