Unix 3.7 gamma VM

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Mar 18 18:11:02 UTC 2005


In message <200503180907.13741.ned at bike-nomad.com>
          Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:

> On Friday 18 March 2005 1:48 am, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > The image segment loading bug is a show-stopper - changeset attached.
> 
> But I'm not sure that's all the problems we're seeing. For one thing, the 
> comparison
> 
>  oop < endOfMemory
> 
> when oop is < 2Gb and endOfMemory is >2Gb will fail. There are similar 
> problems throughout the code.

Exactly the point I was trying to make a week ago; did anyone compile
and try the simple testcase I included?
> 
> I have some changes that make endOfMemory, youngSpaceStart, etc. into 
> unsigned. I think they're more comprehensive, and still seem to work. You 
> might want to take a look at them.
Will do. I'm trying to make some progress on the 64bit stuff anyway.

tim
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