On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > Well, I don't exactly see the point. > What is saved if you drop it?
As long as we have MSCL8 in there people will try to compile with it and then wonder why it doesn't work. By dropping it these people won't waste their time. i.e. bitrot. > *every* change is a change, and I certainly enjoy *no* changes, unless > something is getting better. I am trying to make the Watcom kernel smaller. By moving hma_text + init_text into one CS a lot of duplicated code no longer needs to be duplicate. Sure the init code is compressed and isn't resident, but removing code also cuts down on the compressed kernel.sys size. Similarly for the INIT bss. I doing this I have to create ugly macros to work around the MSC limitations, and sometimes adjust the makefile where I don't know what I'm doing. > Although it serves no real purpose now, neither do the BCC > environments. I think Lucho likes it since the compressed kernel is smaller and the compiler itself is faster, and this kernel works (unlike the MSCL8 compiled one that suffered from bitrot). > However - if you really think it makes things easier - ACK and goodbye > MSC; I haven't compiled the kernel with MSC for > 1 year. OK. Thanks. Then it's really just the same as with clothes -- I have some old clothes, holes at some places, that might have been useful for dirty work. Now I'm moving again to a country far away in June, you look at them and realize you haven't worn them for years. Then it's just better to throw them out. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
