From owner-cvs-sys Sun May 11 11:22:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07817 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sun, 11 May 1997 11:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07803; Sun, 11 May 1997 11:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA01111; Sun, 11 May 1997 19:21:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:21:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bruce Evans cc: CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c In-Reply-To: <199705111239.FAA20498@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-sys@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 May 1997, Bruce Evans wrote: > bde 97/05/11 05:39:45 > > Modified: sys/i386/i386 machdep.c > Log: > Fixed initialization of ldt[]. Unused entries were garbage. A comment > was stale. > > Fixed initialization of gdt[] for the BDE_DEBUGGER case. APM entries > clobbered debugger entries if the debugger was loaded (APM is incompatible > with BDE_DEBUGGER) and unused entries were garbage if the debugger wasn't > loaded. What exactly is BDE_DEBUGGER? I have seen references to it in the sources for *years* and I always wondered what it was and whether it would be a useful thing to have. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891