General:
- - Lots of groups only tried combining the 3 group members' parts
- only in the last few hours. Emphasize that this is a bad choice.
- Encourage them to use CVS/sourceforge/etc.
-
- Suggest where to start in each assignment?
- Provide more tests!
- Students don't understand that they'll need to read lots of code
before they can start writing.
- - Students don't read the debugging documentation. Point out in
- multiple places, and especially point to the backtrace
- description.
-
- Students think data structures are more important than they really
are. Say that clever data structures won't get you too much extra
credit compared to simpler ones. Really bad or "stupid" data
- A fair number of students thought this was the hardest project.
Perhaps we could add some notes about where to start?
-
-
-Another student note:
-
- 3) This is probably an "unsupported" configuration, however I'll point
- it out anyway. Running user programs under Pintos compiled on my
- desktop I get the following warning:
-
- unknown ELF segment type 65041580
-
- If you look at /usr/include/elf.h you will find:
-
- #define PT_LOOS 0x60000000 /* Start of OS-specific */
-
- It would appear that elf segments starting with this program header
- are "OS-specific" My Occam's Razor explanation here is that the
- segment holds the bits to configure the stack protection features in
- newer GCCs.
-
- gcc version is: gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1,
- ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
-
-This probably means that we should provide a linker script that leaves
-out weird stuff.
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