Re: [patch] small fix to espfix code

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 13:33:56 EST

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Stas Sergeev wrote:

The bug is mostly theoretical, I can't
really test the effect of this patch.
So, it is completely untested.

It's not a bug, as the stack is aligned such that 16-bit overflow can't happen. However, it is arguably cleaner to have addl here.

-hpa
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