The open() system call in f8 really broken...

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 13:52:34 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:18:50PM +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >         movl    $66, 4(%esp)    #,
> >         movl    $.LC0, (%esp)   #,
> >         call    open    # 
> 
> Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Perhaps but the x86 processor isn't a processor that runs x86 instructions, it
takes a compressed instruction stream in an old compact format and turns it
into something sane - so this is much less of an isssue than you might think




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