Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:33:46 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader fixed Message-ID: <20000512203346.45BFD1CE1@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> of "Fri, 12 May 2000 22:19:07 %2B0900." <391C04CB.27F8B95F@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Boris Popov wrote:
> >
> > There was a bug introduced by recent commit to the loader. It was
> > caused by long != int problem. Now it fixed. However loader still has
> > problem with sizes more 128k? and Peter Wemm has disabled FICL support on
> > Alphas.
>
> If there is a problem with sizes greater than 128Kb, that would
> certainly explain the problems with FICL. Alas, why do you say that?
> Have you actually seen any suspect code?
It was my idea. FICL didn't work in loader, but did as a user process.
Therefore it was the loader environment causing FICL failures. Changing
the loader by putting in debug printf's made FICL fail differently.
> As for Peter disabling FICL on Alpha... it was never enabled in first
> place!
Ahem!
< # $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/alpha/common/Makefile.common,v 1.5 2000/05/06 18:31:26 msmith Exp $
---
> # $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/alpha/common/Makefile.common,v 1.6 2000/05/12 07:47:47 peter Exp $
14,21c14,21
< BOOT_FORTH= yes
< CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR}/../../ficl -I${.CURDIR}/../../ficl/alpha
< #CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_FORTH
< .if exists(${.OBJDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a)
< LIBFICL= ${.OBJDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a
< .else
< LIBFICL= ${.CURDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a
< .endif
---
> #BOOT_FORTH= yes
> #CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR}/../../ficl -I${.CURDIR}/../../ficl/alpha
> ##CFLAGS+= -DBOOT_FORTH
> #.if exists(${.OBJDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a)
> #LIBFICL= ${.OBJDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a
> #.else
> #LIBFICL= ${.CURDIR}/../../ficl/libficl.a
> #.endif
It was most certainly being compiled in, which affected the size of the
loader.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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