On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:19:43PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > >   Not really, it will give you a 24-bit offset relative to the PC with
> > > "garbage" bits in the upper 8 bits that will be ignored.  [Or useful to
> > > Microsoft to keep a byte value in pointers stored in memory and breaking
> > > the program when upgrading to a a CPU with real 32 bit addressing :-)]
> > > The 68000/68010 only has a 24 bit address bus.
> > 
> > So the actual problem is that the shared libc is rather too large
> > (since it contains acres of stuff the average program dosn't need).
> 
> That's hardly a problem, since the 'acres of unneeded stuff' will not get 
> paged in.

Except that you are likely to get small functions sat in an entire
page.  Also I got the impression that there was an address space
limit, not a physical memory limit.  The mmu on a 68000/010/020
system isn't embedded in the cpu.
(I can't remember whether the 030 or 040 has one.)

	David

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