To: perot@pallas.amp.uni-hannover.de
Subject: Re: Various things                                                              


On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:48:58  Peter Rottengatter <perot wrote: 

>Just to tell you that the system stack issue is resolved. It was an 
>embarrassing stupidity error by myself. It appears that I set the new 
>system stack and afterwards I fetched the status word from the stack to 
>set a lower interupt level. Fetched the status from the wrong stack :-(

Oh, I see.  I've actually made similar mistakes too in the past, but such
bugs do at least have one pleasant aspect.  They're very simple to eliminate.


>It now seems to work. I'm about to ask Andreas Kromke how large system 
>stack in MagiC is, so that I have an idea how much is not enough ;-)

That's a very difficult question to answer, since it depends very much on
how many other system utilities/interrupts are involved.


>Got a message from Roman Hodek. He promised to send us the source code. 
>He just wants to be mentioned in the author list, a matter-of-course I 
>think.

Yes, of course we'll do that.  As originator of the code he should even be
in the about-button text (if we include such a feature).


>Wrote up the _appl_yield and g_* conclusion with a new idea of mine, see 
>separate mail. I'm curious if this is a sensible way to solve the g_* 
>problem.

Considering Andreas's positive response I'm inclined to think so, but I'll
have a look at that other mail and see how you actually intend to use it.

I have now read the other mail you mentioned, and it looks ok to me.
We'll see what the others have to say about it.

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Regards:  Ronald Andersson                     mailto:dlanor@oden.se
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