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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:34:52 -0200
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: loader(8)
Message-ID:  <3E25B7DC.2050503@tcoip.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <3E25ADF4.70101@tcoip.com.br>
References:  <3E25ADF4.70101@tcoip.com.br> <20030115192110.GA19079@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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Looks like a missing prototype. I updated regex.diff, if you would care 
to try again. I'll modify my own test code so that it can be easily used 
and post it's url later.

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:52:36PM -0200, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
> >Now, I'd like to know how the loader space constraints are looking like
> >in the ia64 architecture, and by how much this patch increase loader's
> >size.
>
>
> The correctness constraints are higher than the space constraints:
>
> cc -O -pipe  -ffreestanding -Wformat 
> -I/nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand -I. -DBZ_NO_STDIO -DBZ_NO_COMPRESS 
> -DHAVE_MEMCPY -I/nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/../libz 
> -I/nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/../libc/regex  -c 
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c -o regcomp.o
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c: In function `allocset':
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c:1197: warning: cast to 
> pointer from integer of different size
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c:1202: warning: cast to 
> pointer from integer of different size
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c: In function `mcadd':
> /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libstand/regcomp.c:1342: warning: assignment 
> makes pointer from integer without a cast
>
> Even though the EFI loader runs in physical address mode, the loader
> may easily be loaded above 4GB. These need to be fixed...
>
> As for space, we don't really have special space constraints. We
> shouldn't bloat unnecessary of course. This applies to both on-
> disk and in-core space:
>
> 	loader		old size	new size
> 	----------	----------	----------
> 	loader.efi	498745		578843
> 	skiload(*)	420928		498904
>
> (*) My version of skiload is slightly larger (~5KB) than the
> "official" version because I added PAL, SAL, ACPI and EFI stubs
> in it to to allow mostly non-modified kernels to boot under ski
> and have support for SMP (given a modified ski of course).
>
> I haven't tried the regex code...
>


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