From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:49:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463BE2C7.9010707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r6pwniv1.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I have this vague memory of liking 0x3c because if we do happen to use
> more room then we intended the consequences are pretty benign.
>
> But that is a pretty minor consequence.
>
That's a dangerous assumption (besides, it's likely wrong, since there
are only two unused bytes below it.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 8:21 [PATCH] i386: always clear bss Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 11:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 14:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-04 15:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 17:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 17:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-04 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-04 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-05 1:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-05 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-05 2:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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