Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <XFMail.020110124736.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020110182428.E27279@cicely8.cicely.de>
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[ cc'ing Ian so he can see this ] On 10-Jan-02 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:58:17PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >> Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >> >> > A similar change is required on the alpha. Could someone check that >> > the following patch fixes the problem with 16k/2k filesystems on >> > the alpha? >> >> > -#define BUFSIZE 8192 >> > +#define BUFSIZE 16384 >> >> This doesn't work for me. The bootstrap dies like before. >> (-CURRENT) > > Can the gcc handle >64k globals on alpha? > There are at least 4 static char arrays allocated with that size. Seems to work ok for userland. Just made a simple program that makes 5 16k buffers as globals and touches all of their contents and it worked FWIW. *shrug* -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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