On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:23:10PM -0800, george anzinger wrote: > I MUCH prefer a change to the kernel if one or the other > needs to change. The issue is, of course, IRIX > compatability and what that means. This comes up because I > want to use the definitions in combination and the common > bit makes a mess of things. Still, it would be NICE if it > matched the rest of the platforms. The IRIX compatibility code seems unused and the constants aren't even part of the ABI at all. So in this case it indeed seems preferable to change the kernel side. Anybody disagrees? Ralf