Is there anyoen willing to form a study group to study for the test on tuesday and wednesday?

I am, what time and when? I usually finish after 5pm

I am done with school after 1:45 pm

Can we use calculators on tomorrow's exam?

Edited by author 10-03-2002 11:21 PM
so how did everyone do in the exam? I think it was pretty fair exam except i could've used more time. But hey this is where they test us, so no complains. Just one request for you professor, if you can post solutions to this exam before tuesday..just can't wait till tuesday.. it will be greatly appreciated.

A few messages back there was a criticism of the TA's not showing up for the "lab" section on Friday's. I have had them hold this session selectively, announcing it to the class each time. This session has run a couple times to go over homework problems, and will run again Friday (today!) in preparation for the programming assignment.

is anyone having problems copying the files for the programming assignment? i made the directory and as soon as i try to use the copy command it give me an error message reading "cp:no match found". does anyone know what this could be?

hey i figured it out. when you type out the line:-
cp ~i385/cpu/* .
make sure you put a space between the * and the . or else it does not work.

In the dispatch function, it says
/* Check to see if there is no one to run. If not, set PTBR to NULL, make sure the tail of the queue is set properly and return */

this is what i am thinking: if there is no one runs, then the readyQ_head is empty, so is the readyQ_tail. so why do we need to set the tail?

could some one correct me?

Hi, are we allowed to use STL in OSP ???

does anyone know how do we run this simulator? i mean to say after we made changes to cpu.c file how do we know if it is right? let's say i did make after i made changes to cpu.c and i got no errors...what is the step after that? how do we see if the output matches the OSP.demo file. i don't understand that. if anyone knows?

We are allowed anything to implement the stack ( my guess ).

There is an error in the turnin line:
turnin -c eecs371a -p fcfs cpu.c

it should be
turnin -c cs385 -p fcfs cpu.c


OSP: after you compile your own cpu.c, compile your own osp, and then run your osp with the paramaters provided and see if you get the same thing.

Just because the cpu.c compiles, doesn't mean it implements round robin.

do we assign the get_clock() to the last_dispatch in the chosen process(new to run) or to the stopped process(the one in the very beginning) in the dispatch function?

Edited by author 10-27-2002 01:53 AM
hey that is what i am asking? it doesn't run using OSP par.low command
it creates the executable OSP and cpu.o but it doesn't run just by typing OSP.. i think there is some problem

I got this warning:

Idle CPU with non-empty ready queue.

does anyone have a clue why this happened?

In the inaert_ready() function, the the pcb IS ALREADY in the ready_q when we do the checking. we do nothing quitting the function or we change the pcb status to ready then quit?