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From: newsham@lava.net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: [Unix-jun72] 0407 binaries on 1ed
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 14:00:27 -1000 (HST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805041359490.20114@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080504223353.GA63333@minnie.tuhs.org>

> Excellent stuff Tim. I've had a quick look; I suspect the existing code:
>
>        cmp     r5,u.count /
>        bgt     1f / branch if r5 greater than u.count
>        mov     r5,u.count
>
> checks to ensure that the new a.out is small emough to fit into the
> address space left by the executable that called exec(2).

Right, but after it branches it goes ahead and reads anyway(!?)
Thats the part that confused me.. perhaps there's a line or two
missing somewhere in the code here?

> 	Warren

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-04  5:19 [Unix-jun72] init Tim Newsham
2008-05-04  5:31 ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-04  6:29   ` [TUHS] comparing s1 frags, s2 bits, 1ed and jun72 print out Tim Newsham
2008-05-04 20:18   ` [Unix-jun72] 0407 binaries on 1ed Tim Newsham
2008-05-04 22:33     ` Warren Toomey
2008-05-05  0:00       ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2008-05-05  1:17     ` [Unix-jun72] Another RK mount program Warren Toomey
2008-05-05  1:23     ` [Unix-jun72] No luck with C compiler yet, but an idea Warren Toomey
2008-05-05  1:56       ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-05 23:01         ` [Unix-jun72] uppercase input Warren Toomey
2008-05-04  6:50 ` [Unix-jun72] init Warren Toomey
2008-05-04  8:41   ` [Unix-jun72] Yes, a mount command Warren Toomey
2008-05-04 12:54 ` [Unix-jun72] init Brad Parker

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