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From: jkp@sauna.hut.fi (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Bug in minix library setjmp.s; lots of GNU tools diffs available
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Date: 9 Feb 91 14:59:44 GMT
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Bruce writes:
>> Bootstrapping with the broken Minix programs was also painful.
>
>May I request that people not make vague negative comments like this.
>What features of what programs are broken?  An OS and C implementation
>are not broken just because they cannot compile and support all the
>GNU programs.  I will attempt to fix bugs if I know what they are.

I haven't found anything that wrong in the C or library implementation
(except the setjmp problem).

It's just that the /bin/sh functionality is not quite what the various
configuration and installation scripts expect, the same goes for the
make program (it fails to make gcc, for example).  Also ls did
something very strange, and also various other programs I don't
remember which I've now replaced with GNU or other free stuff.

Sorry, I haven't put any effort to finding out what the bugs exactly
are since I'm trying to use the Minix programs as little as possible
to use as free a system as possible.

>>	addr	0(f7),sj_f7(r0)	#save f7
...

>I these are illegal instructions.

OK, thanks, I'll fix them - I never did study the ns32k assembler ;-)

//Jyrki