[Unix-jun72] confused about disk clearing
Tim Newsham
newsham at lava.net
Fri May 2 07:23:50 AEST 2008
> I'm confused about the disk clearing code in u0.s:
It's possible the "cold" code was not maintained?
> / zero i list
>
> 1:
> dec r0 / r0=33.,...,1
> dec r1
> jsr r0,clear / zero block 'r1' on fixed head disk
> tst r1
> bgt 1b / if blocks 33,...,1 have all been zeroed, done.
Hmm.. looking at the code the "dec r0" looks like it should be
"dec r1". The value of r1 at this point is 34 (and r0 is not).
The comment is likely also wrong: "r1=33.,...,1". This would
agree with the current values. r0 looks to be used for an entirely
different purpose throughout the code (linking jsr's).
> -brad
Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
More information about the TUHS
mailing list