Controlling Patches

[ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)]

Would it be easier to debug mint if the patches that are sent in are
#ifdef'd into the code?   So that you could compile with -DMEGA_PATCH 
-DEXCEPTION_PATCH or something, that way you can see which patch is breaking
the system.   Of course, a million #ifdefs is a pain and would probably
solve more problems than it is worth.
 
I compiled vconsoles today.  The only thing I still miss about TOSWIN is
the cut-n-paste stuff.  I'm gonna recompile MiNT since bash likes to hang
me and when I hit CONTROL-C it used to wake it up.  Now, I get exit
code : 512 and MiNT quits :-(   Also, I got a crash where the ASSERT
macro in proc.c failed.  I wrote down the exact message and line number,
but now I can't find the slip of paper.   I finally got around to fixing
zmodem.  Just comment out about 3 lines and add in some lines to tell
the mintlib to use binary mode for stdin and stdout and the rest works
fine under the bsd compile (with some warnings).  I haven't tested the
speed yet, and since it doesn't report the speed its kinda hard to tell
(i was gonna run it through a pipe to test).
 
It's late, I'm rambling.  Whoever wrote vconsoles did a GREAT job.  

CYA