Re: modules 2.1.8 fix

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linux@startrek.in-trier.de)
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:18:59 +0100 (MET)

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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Heiko Eissfeldt wrote:

> this little fix greatly enhanced lodule loading under 2.0.25, 2.1.7 and
> 2.1.8 :-)
>
> - memset(secref[bss_seg], 0, bss_size);
> + memset(secref[bss_seg], bss_size, 0);

ROTFL... Fill 0 bytes in memory with the value of bbs_size.
I'm convinced this can be optimized... There just has to be a faster nop
function... ;)

LLaP
bero

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