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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 1995 23:37:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bootstrap now too large
Message-ID:  <199504202137.XAA05168@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504201752.KAA14845@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 20, 95 10:52:21 am

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > Adding 'C' to the usage message and the CDROM case to the switch expanded
> > my boot blocks by 128 bytes.  They previously had 16 bytes to spare and
> > are now 112 bytes too large.
> > 
> > Apparently gcc generates fat time-optimized code for the switch.
> 
> SHit!
> 
> Any body with time on their hands ?

I'm still hacking on them.  I've just got a final success report from
someone with a Gateway 2000 programmable key, where any and all of our
keyboard-probing bootblocks hung before.  I'm about to integrate my
changes back, and naturally i'll have to re-fit them then...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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