Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 11:50:54 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Yes, that's more or less the same code, aside from using 0x40(%esi) as a
> stack. Would that be OK here?
>

I saw the 0x40(%esi) stack stuff, and I'm utterly puzzled by it. There
is no reason one can't set up %esp to point to a hunk in ordinary memory
and use it?

-hpa
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