*Concepts you may want to Google beforehand: XX* **Goal: Fix miscellaneous issues with our code** The OSDev wiki has a section [which describes some issues with JamesM's tutorial](http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy%27s_Tutorial_Known_Bugs). Since we followed his tutorial for lessons 18-22 (interrupts through malloc), we'll need to make sure we fix any of the issues before moving on. 1. Wrong CFLAGS --------------- We add `-ffreestanding` when compiling `.o` files, which includes `kernel_entry.o` and thus `kernel.bin` and `os-image.bin`. Before, we disabled libgcc (not libc) through the use of `-nostdlib` and we didn't re-enable it for linking. Since this is tricky, we'll delete `-nostdlib` `-nostdinc` was also pased to gcc, but we will need it for step 3. 2. kernel.c `main()` function ----------------------------- Modify `kernel/kernel.c` and change `main()` to `kernel_main()` since gcc recognizes "main" as a special keyword and we don't want to mess with that. Change `boot/kernel_entry.asm` to point to the new name accordingly. To fix the `i386-elf-ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000001000` warning message, add a `global _start;` and define the `_start:` label in `boot/kernel_entry.asm`. 3. Reinvented datatypes ----------------------- It looks like it was a bad idea to define non-standard data types like `u32` and such, since C99 introduces standard fixed-width data types like `uint32_t` We need to include `` which works even in `-ffreestanding` (but requires stdlibs) and use those data types instead of our own, then delete them on `type.h` 4. Improperly aligned `kmalloc` ------------------------------- First, since `kmalloc` uses a size parameter, we'll use the correct data type `size_t` instead of `u32int_t`. `` is required for `size_t` 5. Missing functions -------------------- 6. Interrupt handlers --------------------- - also cli, sti in interrupt handlers 7. Structs and attributes -------------------------