Re: Big Fix for 2.2.1

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:10:02 +0100

> Alas, yes. If there is a power of two rule, it should surely be documented in
> the code. The existing code in page.h encourages people to make improper
> changes. The only other value I know of that works correctly is 0x80000000.

It's really a bug in the documentation. It has to be -2^n, therefore the
only values that make sense are 0xc0000000 and 0x80000000. 0xe0000000 etc.
is also possible to get maximum process address space on machines with
small physical memory.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers..."


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