Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: About Minix 68k
Message-ID: <1991May1.182450.326@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 18:24:50 GMT


In <52228@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, Christoph van Wuellen writes:
> I am pretty sure that your message is pure garbage.
> There is no 64K limit on arrays with the ACK compiler, and the restriction
> on 16-bit ints does not impose this. All pointer calculations are done
> in 16 bit.
> 
> Besides, I normally use about 150 Block buffers in my 68K MINIX, no problem.
> 
> C.v.W.


I don't know about his reasons, but I have tried building a kernel with
the Minix 386 buffer sizes on my ST, with ack, c68 and gcc. With the
buffers that large, all three failed to boot. As soon as I put the buffers
back to normal, everything was fine (I did a make clean in both cases
first, just to be safe).


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