Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> Another note from our avian friends; i seem to have sent a slightly 
> different dump from the patch, although they do both achieve the same 
> effect. I shall append it for completeness.

Hmm. I don't see anything. However, it's a lot easier to read the
gcc-generated assembly ("make arch/i386/kernel/vm86.s") than it is to read
the objdump disassembly.

It's also a lot easier to see what the assembly language is when giving 
the

	-fno-reorder-blocks

switch to gcc. Without it, modern gcc's tend to have _way_ too many jumps 
around. But maybe that actually changes the behaviour too.

		Linus

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