Ram initialization and small c.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Tue Mar 4 12:31:01 CET 2003


Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > Oh.  I think I can have some answers in less than a month.  That is
> > just what I have allocated for investigation.  But it will take a week
> > or so to get something working well enough to compare with the inline
> > tweaking approach.
> > Plus write now I am enjoying the change of pace.
> 
> Cool, let's see how it goes.  Feed it the decode routine from nrv2b.c and see
> how it likes that. 

I will try that when the time comes..

> gcc is a long ways from doing this in registers without a
> major re-write, which is probably about as much work as your implementation in
> assy.  Very clever assy code, BTW.

I just picked that code along with the nrv2b algorithm out of libucl.
But I can at least recognize a good thing when I see it.
 
> Also I think the .S files don't have to be kept if we use a trivial post
> processing program like below.

That looks reasonable.  Well there is now a backup plan.

Eric







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