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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix ST 1.5.0
Message-ID: <2609@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 3 May 90 01:36:04 GMT
References: <18279@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.mq.oz (Bruce.Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <18279@nigel.udel.EDU> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>It is a trivial task to recompile the MINIX-ST code with the compiler I
>posted recently using 32-bit ints, but take care of the interface to the
>operating system: change all int's to short in message structures!

Changing the interface is more complicated than that. Look what happens with
write(fd, buf, 0x10001). A short in the message structures will truncate the
count to 1.

The easiest thing to do do is recompile kernel+mm+fs+init with 32-bit ints.
That is what I do for Minix-386. The C code will cause little trouble. The
assembler code will cause trouble. Jwahar Bammi has already done stuff like
this in gkernel for the ST.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.syd.dit.csiro.au