Better debugging support in Mach

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, At last I got it working: in the latest git master, the bootstrap code can cope with VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS != 0 by using segmentation before switching to C code. This means we can make the kernel live at high virtual addresses, which means that the debugger trace & such can properly know ho

Re: New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> arnuld uttre writes: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > arnuld uttre writes: >> The hardware has gone beyond any imagination of virtually any XIX >> century's person, but the English language that we're currently >> using is still pretty much the same as it

Re: New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread arnuld uttre
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> arnuld uttre writes: >The hardware has gone beyond any imagination of virtually any >XIX century's person, but the English language that we're >currently using is still pretty much the same as it was over a >

Re: New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> arnuld uttre writes: […] > I don't do anything because I don't want to use C or C++ to write > microkernel. I have my reasons for this: > After 40 years we are still using a language that was designed on > some ancient piece of equipment to take benefit of the instruction > set of t

New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread arnuld uttre
I am very much intersted in writing a microkernel for HurdNG. Anyway, I see Debian is set to release GNU/Hurd by this year end or early 2013 and this is still on "old baby" Mach. I think many must have recognized my name already (may be the as the guys who talks and talks but does nothing *practica