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From: Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot2.c
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Peter Wemm [peter@FreeBSD.org] wrote :

> peter       2002/05/11 14:39:59 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/i386/boot2  Makefile boot2.c 
>   Log:
>   Use a crowbar and duct-tape to make boot2 fit again.  This gets it down
>   to 4 bytes free.  I removed a printf (the Keyboard yes/no) since it is of
>   marginal value and sed'ed the generated asm output to remove the unwanted
>   aligns.  There's probably a better way to gain a few extra bytes than
>   losing the printf.  Shortening strings is probably a better option but this
>   should get us over the hurdle.

Have we considered compressing the strings using come nefariously lame
compression mechanism?

ASCII text tends to compress really well even with methods that have really
small decompression algorithms.

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