From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pUf-0003eP-E2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:57:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pUd-0003df-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:57:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pUc-0003d3-2t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:57:35 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7pUb-0003d0-SU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:57:33 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pUb-00088F-Ib for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:57:33 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pUW-0003Pc-SG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:57:31 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J7pU9-0007tf-FT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:57:05 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:57:05 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071227095705.GA30225@thorin> References: <1198575687.6484.25.camel@latsun.main.fg> <20071225110756.GA22389@thorin> <1198581793.6484.30.camel@latsun.main.fg> <20071226071732.GB8632@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Failed to build grub2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:57:35 -0000 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 I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)