Re: pmnscomp and PMNS checksums

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across an oddity in pmnscomp.c (the binary PMNS
> compiler) - the -v option contains conditional code on
> the BUILDTOOL macro, which conditional makes version 2
> available.  This is not enabled anywhere, probably was
> on IRIX.  Version 2 looks to be similar to version 1,
> except has added a checksum.
>
> Anyone know what the history is here?  Why aren't we
> enabling version 2 everywhere?

don't know.

Irrespective, we should nuke compiling the pmns and just
deal with ascii. The binary format was introduced eons ago
for performance reasons that are no longer relevant on
modern h/w.

Cheers