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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Shoelace 1.0a and Bcc (32-bits)
Message-ID: <2809@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 2 Aug 90 22:34:26 GMT
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Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <26466@nigel.udel.EDU> andrew@eleceng.bradford.ac.uk (Andrew G. Minter) writes:

>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?

Are you talking about the right thing? Winiboot is written in assembler! Are
you gauging the size of winiboot by using ls -l? If so you may be fooled by the
symbol table that is appended to the end. Try lacing up a floppy disk using
winiboot (as explained in the documentation). Laceup will ignore the symbol
table (I hope).

>do I preprocess the .x files in the kernel?  Right now I've kludged up a

Try getting hold of the Decus cpp that was just posted.

Earl
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