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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /history/hurd-flash5 | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
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microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
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diff --git a/history/hurd-flash5 b/history/hurd-flash5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..041a0ef7 --- /dev/null +++ b/history/hurd-flash5 @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) +Message-Id: <9409210619.AA17570@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> +To: "Lots of potentially interested people and" <nobody@gnu.ai.mit.edu> +Subject: New milestone acheived by the GNU Hurd +X-Tom-Swiftie: "I can't get this fire started," Tom said woodenly. + + +I have just successfully compiled and run a null C program on the +Hurd. This is using GCC native as one would normally use GCC. + +Sadly, it took quite a while (too long, in fact) to read the large +archives that make up the GNU C library, but I think I know where the +substantial inefficiency is. + +Once that is done, I would be happy to label this a "self-hosting +system". But not just yet. + +The last bug preventing this was an error in dealing with files over +about 8 M; this came about because in order to link a program one +needed the GNU C library, which is over 9M when symbols are included. + + -mib + |