From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 30 2:33:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA84C37B71B; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 02:33:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14iwDh-000LRB-0A; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:33:29 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2UAWD456646; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:32:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:32:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: , Subject: Re: bounds_check_with_label() on alpha In-Reply-To: <15043.38865.445922.245686@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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