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Date:      Sun, 11 May 1997 19:21:50 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970511192052.310C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705111239.FAA20498@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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