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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:12:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CA0895.8040201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <923904.35193.qm@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Etienne Lorrain wrote:
>  I did try to remove by "sed" some structure easily converted, like:
>   mov 26(%ebx),%eax
>  by:
>   mov 26(%bx),%eax
> for all registers esi,edi,ebx,ebp but it saved so few bytes that I did not keep it.

Well, *of course*, since you still do all your pointer arithmetic in 
32-bit space, plus you can't convert all 32-bit modes this way.  This is 
a far cry from a proper port.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 14:29 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-07 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-11 20:49 RE : " Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 10:42 ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-12 12:29   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 13:58     ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-12 14:06     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-12 19:47       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 13:10 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-09  5:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-09 13:04   ` Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-09 19:42     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08  9:48 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-08 11:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 11:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-08 12:10   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 17:23 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-06 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-06 18:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 13:23 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-06 13:12 Etienne Lorrain
2007-02-07  6:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-02-06 12:49 Etienne Lorrain

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