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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:33:40 +1000
From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Hi Alan,

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:46, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 
>> >  Can I run uClinux on platforms that has MMU
>>
>>You could, but why would you want to?
> 
> 
> Being able to run true ucLinux on i386 makes debugging and verification
> of software so much less painful sometimes. 

For some things yes. But it is a real pain trying to track
down memory corruption and stack overflow problems in
applications. They have a tendency to take your the whole system...

Regards
Greg



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