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From: andrew@eleceng.bradford.ac.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Shoelace 1.0a and Bcc (32-bits)
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Date: 2 Aug 90 16:29:58 GMT
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Many thanks to all those people who sent me advice about obtaining and
installing Bruce Evan's 32-bit upgrade.  I've just about finished installing
it and I'm pleased as punch.  This is a real quality piece of software,
thanks Bruce.

If anyone on JANET could use this stuff and/or some help then I'm willing!

Now a couple of little problems:

I've now running in 32-bit mode and am trying to rebuild shoelace with bcc.
The trouble is that bcc seems to generate code which is a little larger that
that produced by ACK. This means that winiboot is too big by 122 bytes.  Has
anyone seen this problem before?  Any solutions?

Another little problem: I can no longer run the original Minix cpp, so how
do I preprocess the .x files in the kernel?  Right now I've kludged up a
solution, but there must be a better way.

Cheers, Andrew
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