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From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amol Lad <dal_loma@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: uclinux on MMU platforms - query
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:33:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D51BC64.4030704@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1028719830.18156.238.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk

Hi Alan,

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:46, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 
>> >  Can I run uClinux on platforms that has MMU
>>
>>You could, but why would you want to?
> 
> 
> Being able to run true ucLinux on i386 makes debugging and verification
> of software so much less painful sometimes. 

For some things yes. But it is a real pain trying to track
down memory corruption and stack overflow problems in
applications. They have a tendency to take your the whole system...

Regards
Greg



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-08  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07  5:46 uclinux on MMU platforms - query Greg Ungerer
2002-08-07 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08  0:33   ` Greg Ungerer [this message]
2002-08-08 11:42     ` David Weinehall
2002-08-08 13:20       ` gerg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-06 16:04 Amol Lad

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