Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:32:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bounds_check_with_label() on alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103301131010.56601-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <15043.38865.445922.245686@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > David O'Brien writes: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:59:02PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Do'h. Ok, I see the problem. bounds_check_with_label() is basically > > > > *Sigh*. Of course there is no rev 1.1 or 1.2 (and their log message > > wasn't saved when those revs were diked out) to help explain _why_. > > I think it was commented out in the original merged netbsd/alpha > freebsd/i386 machdep.c. It was probably commented out because alpha > didn't have enough infastructure to allow it to compile & Doug wanted > to just keep moving until he got something booting on SimOs & then it > was forgotten. I don't blame him. Doug? It was probably something like that. I don't actually remember but I can believe that I just diked it out while I was trying to get the thing to mount its root filesystem. > > > Crap like this is really irritating on the Alpha... > > Yes. But as more people use it, it happens less & less often. Hopefully. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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