Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:48:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <199810301848.KAA01266@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:44:04 PST." <17327.909773044@time.cdrom.com>
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> > How many people would be interested in labels and conditional branches, > > for example? > > Probably quite a few, but then you get into the predictable debate > of "why not just add atlast to the loader? It's only 7K!" :-) Actually, it's about 45k. I've been looking at all sorts of small script interpreters; there doesn't seem to be much in the "useful" category under about 40k, and that's too big for the Alpha at the moment. All of the usual scripting plusses apply; I just want to keep things as tight as possible. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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