[sqlite] POSIX and MMU (was Re: out of the void: xDlSym)

2016-01-17 Thread Howard Chu
Scott Robison wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:58 PM, James K. Lowden > wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:41:41 -0500 >> Richard Damon wrote: >> >>> there are machines where it doesn't work (you just need a larger >>> program space than data space). >> >> Huh. An example of which is the

[sqlite] POSIX and MMU (was Re: out of the void: xDlSym)

2016-01-17 Thread Scott Robison
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Howard Chu wrote: > Scott Robison wrote: > >> Sorry for the OT diversion, but I'm just curious as I don't have >> historical >> POSIX standards for reference. Does POSIX really *require* an MMU? >> Certainly Unix like systems were written for 8086 class

[sqlite] POSIX and MMU (was Re: out of the void: xDlSym)

2016-01-17 Thread Scott Robison
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 10:09 AM, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:21:26 -0700 > Scott Robison wrote: > > > > Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086: > > > 20-bit code pointers and 16-bit data pointers. A machine for which > > > C compilers existed,

[sqlite] POSIX and MMU (was Re: out of the void: xDlSym)

2016-01-17 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:21:26 -0700 Scott Robison wrote: > > Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086: > > 20-bit code pointers and 16-bit data pointers. A machine for which > > C compilers existed, and on which no Posix system will ever run > > (because it lacks an

[sqlite] POSIX and MMU (was Re: out of the void: xDlSym)

2016-01-16 Thread Scott Robison
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:58 PM, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:41:41 -0500 > Richard Damon wrote: > > > there are machines where it doesn't work (you just need a larger > > program space than data space). > > Huh. An example of which is the "medium model" of the Intel 8086: >