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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: u-vpoa@aetey.se
Cc: linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the memory model being used in elks?
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 22:51:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150510225118.6fca5977@www.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150510211944.GO8197@example.net>

> Even without MMU overlapping 8086 segments allow the use of this <-Space->
> for stack or data+bss of other processes. Wonder if/how this is handled
> in elks (lacking the time to Use-The-Source...)

Only if you use far pointers which is incredibly expensive, otherwise
taking the address of a stack based variable breaks.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-08 20:14 the memory model being used in elks? u-vpoa
2015-05-09 17:03 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-05-09 17:47   ` u-vpoa
2015-05-09 17:50     ` Jody Bruchon
2015-05-09 18:38       ` u-vpoa
2015-05-10 15:31         ` Juan Perez-Sanchez
2015-05-10 18:40           ` u-vpoa
2015-05-10 20:27             ` Alan Cox
2015-05-10 21:19               ` u-vpoa
2015-05-10 21:51                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2015-05-11  6:10                   ` u-vpoa
2015-05-11  9:27                     ` Alan Cox
2015-05-11 11:25                       ` u-vpoa

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