Re: [ros-kernel] Ton-O-Bugs

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

Yes, please do commit them! I was actually just about to mail the
list about my problems with the latest code...

I can't get ReactOS, built from the latest code, to boot under Bochs.
Has anyone else got it to work? It crashes in different places all
the time. At first I thought it was the new disk driver stack, but
using the old IDE driver also caused crashes.

Anyone?

- Jason

--- "KJK::Hyperion" <no...@li...> wrote:
> It's amazing how many bugs one can find in a single morning without
> even 
> looking for them specifically (can I commit the fixes? or do you
> want to 
> review them first?):
>   - reactos/tools/helper.mk places TARGET_LFLAGS *before* default
> linker 
> flags in the command lines for kernel-mode targets, so it isn't
> possible to 
> override, for example, image and section alignment values (SOLVED:
> fixed 
> the affected rules)
>   - reactos/tools/helper.mk doesn't define the "nostrip" rule for
> static 
> library targets (SOLVED: added a dummy rule, line marked with a
> FIXME comment)
>   - the Null device driver (reactos/services/dd/null) has a couple
> of bugs 
> in the entry point routine (SOLVED: bugs fixed. Null driver now
> also 
> manages a "zero stream" device. Two at the price of one)
>   - major flaw in our toolchain: GNU ld doesn't calculate the PE
> image 
> checksum, it just happily sets it to zero. Apparently no command
> line 
> switch controls this. NT refuses to load drivers with an incorrect
> checksum 
> (can't test the new Null driver because of this)
>   - GNU ld appears to ignore --entry if --subsystem is posix:
> 
> gcc -Wl,--base-file,base.tmp \
>   -Wl,--entry,_DllMain@12 \
>   -Wl,--file-alignment,0x20 -Wl,--section-alignment,0x20 
> -Wl,--subsystem,posix:19.90 -mdll -Wl,--image-base,0x400000 \
>   -o junk.tmp \
>   misc/psxx.coff misc/psxx.coff misc/main.o misc/stubs.o 
> ../../../../dk/w32/lib/ntdll.a
> 
>
D:\devtools\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\i386-mingw32\2.95.3-6\..\..\..\..\i386-mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
> 
> warning: cannot find entry symbol ___PosixProcessStartup;
> defaulting to 00400020
> 
> 
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