On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:47:39PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
>  > > Oh, yah, the WinCE hack -- I don't think we want to use that feature
>  > > on the FCS-capable chips.
>  > 
>  > On handhelds (like the Ipaq), this may be exactly what is wanted.  On a 
>  > desktop machine I agree, it's unlikely to be of use because of the 
>  > restrictions it imposes.
> 
> Well, 32M is a pretty small address space -- it's going to affect where
> you put the stack, is certainly going to affect shared libraries, etc.,
> and may constitute a new ABI.

Heh.  It's still bigger than the arm26 user address space.

Hmm.  Could you dynamically enable it for processes whose hard memory
limits were low enough?  That'd be cute.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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