Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:10:02 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Big Fix for 2.2.1 |
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> 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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