From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Failed to build grub2
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:57:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071227095705.GA30225@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980712260313j62600cd3o70a4583cf67ed26e@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:13:22PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>
> It's a trick to do fast arithmetic using the 32-bit address mode, for example,
>
> leal 10 (%ebx, %eax, 4) , %ecx
>
> means
>
> %ecx = %ebx + %eax * 4 + 10
Reminds me again why the i386 instruction set is such a big joke ;-)
> But some assembler might not allow to use 32-bit address in 16-bit
> mode, so you can follow the slow path, for example,
Why not force it with .code32 / .code16 ?
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-27 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-25 9:41 Failed to build grub2 Francis Gendreau
2007-12-25 11:07 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-25 11:23 ` Francis Gendreau
2007-12-25 11:37 ` Bean
2007-12-26 7:17 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-26 11:13 ` Bean
2007-12-27 9:57 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2007-12-27 10:43 ` Bean
2007-12-27 11:00 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-27 11:07 ` Bean
2007-12-26 7:15 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-27 6:40 ` Francis Gendreau
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