Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:07:52 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: peter@FreeBSD.ORG (Peter Wemm) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf kernel.script Makefile.i386 Message-ID: <199809301907.VAA01443@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199809301214.FAA22936@freefall.freebsd.org> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 30, 98 05:14:39 am"
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> I'm not sure if btxboot is going to like this, it doesn't do proper ELF
> header checking and assumes that there are exactly two program header
> entries and that they are both PT_LOAD entries - a bad assumption.
Definitely.
Though with only 4896 bytes for the whole program, the necessary trick
is really knowing what assumptions are benign. :-(
Anyway, thanks for the warning. There's an updated version at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/btxboot-0.8.1.tar.gz
Incidentally, gcc 2.7.2.1's optimization for space on the i386 probably
deserves a bit of respect; fitting a 725-line C program into that
amount of space ain't too bad for any compiler. (TenDRA doesn't even
come close.)
--
Robert Nordier
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