Hello James,
James Vahn wrote to Jan Wagemakers :
 >> I post here sat.s , a little linux-asm-program. It is not very
 >> spectacular, but nice for watching to. ;-)
 JV> Segmentation fault.
Strange?.... But interesting ;-)
 JV> Which brings us to debugging these things under Linux...
 JV> How is it done? I could get a core dump, which I
 JV> understand is fed into gdb, but then what?
Mmm, I don't know... but I like to know... maybe a question for the
Linux-area?
 >> At this moment, I like to find a way to keep the speed of the program
 >> the same for all types of computers, independently of how much system
 >> resources are taken away by other programs. Someone an idea?
 JV> Maybe.. what is the purpose of determining bogomips at startup?
 JV> Also would swear I've seen kernel code using a port for that. out 4Fh,al
A while back, I have posted a new version of sat.s in this area
(sat_color.s), and there I have used
        pushl $160000           # C : usleep(....);
        call usleep             # Wacht-lus
        addl $4,%esp
                                      to make the wait-routine. And now, it
seems that the speed is the same on my computer, even when there are
running a lot of others programs in the background.
If you find a solution to make this 'program' run on your computer, please
tell me.... there are so many things that I have to learn ;-)
Have a nice day, James.       - Jan Wagemakers -
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