From: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
To: Richard Wallman <r_wallman@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Linux 8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adventure - the answer to what went wrong?
Date: 12 Dec 2002 22:21:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039724471.2746.21.camel@cool> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212121911.gBCJB75G012842@eddie.loc>
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> Gave it a bit of thought today, and I think I know what happened.
>
> Looking at the libc sources, it looks like the strcmp and strncmp
> functions assume that both strings are in the same 64Kb segment. (There
> may be other functions that make this assumption as well, but I haven't
> really looked).
They assume right! In ELKS DS=SS=ES.
By the way, the CVS ELKS tree solves many memory problems but requires a
patch to the linker that I posted here some time ago and never got in
the linker tree... :(
Harry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-10 13:07 ELKS port of Adventure - help needed :) Paul Nasrat
2002-12-11 8:19 ` Phil Goembel
2002-12-11 21:27 ` Richard Wallman
2002-12-11 22:22 ` Richard Wallman
2002-12-11 22:46 ` Richard Wallman
2002-12-11 22:51 ` Paul Nasrat
2002-12-11 23:59 ` Phil Goembel
2002-12-12 7:39 ` Paul Nasrat
2002-12-12 8:18 ` Paul Nasrat
2002-12-12 19:11 ` Adventure - the answer to what went wrong? Richard Wallman
2002-12-12 20:21 ` Harry Kalogirou [this message]
2002-12-12 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-12 20:27 ` Dan Olson
2002-12-12 20:29 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-12-12 20:41 ` Dan Olson
2002-12-12 21:15 ` Alan Cox
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