Greg Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 09:23:33AM -0600, bliss@tigris.org wrote:
>
>>...
>>* subversion/include/svn_types.h
>> (SVN_STREAM_CHUNK_SIZE): Reduce from 100 kiB to 8 kiB.
>
> I don't think this is possible to do. It feels like an API change. Changes
> around functions are very straight-forward to tell what is compatible, and
> what isn't. Symbolic constants are trickier. It is quite likely that
> somebody uses this to define a buffer size somewhere, and now it is
> possible that two blocks of code, compiled at different times, are going
> to disagree on that size.
Roger that. I really doubt that anyone uses it, and I don't like that
it's published, but since it is, I have to agree.
> So... -1 on this change, unless we can determine that it definitely won't
> be a problem. (but I can't see that)
I don't see how anyone could prove such a thing, at least not in the
mathematical sense. It's reverted in r9288.
/Tobias
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Received on Mon Apr 5 21:02:02 2004