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From: ram <ram@curvesoft.com>
Subject: GRUB sample kernel question
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:07:02 -0800
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Hi,

I was looking at the toy kernel in the grub distribution (multiboot.h, 
kernel.c, boot.S
in the 'docs' subdirectory) and noticed boot.S starts out like this:

    .globl    start, _start
start:
_start:
    jmp    multiboot_entry
    ....
multiboot_entry:

I'm wondering why this jump is needed; couldn't the start/_start labels 
simply have
been placed adjacent to the multiboot_entry label thereby avoiding the 
jump ?

Thanks.

Ram