In article <linux.kernel.20000504231140Z156431-29618+818@vger.rutgers.edu>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com> wrote:
>This is my first post to this list, so please be gentle. :-)
>
>I'm studying the memory-sizing code (aka E820) in setup.S of 2.3.99-pre6,
>because I think I may need to modify it for our purposes. I found something odd
>on line 306:
>
>movw %di, %ax
>addw $20,%ax
>movw %ax,%di
>
>I don't understand why it isn't just:
>
>addw $20,%di
Because when I wrote the code, the assembler I was using got confused
by add di,#20; after the code went in, well, it works, so....
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david parsons \bi/ But it will be fixed with the next version of the
\/ patch.
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