Re: i486 emu in mainline?

Alan Cox
2004-05-25T22:43:39Z

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:03:04PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The important thing is to correctly handle whatever is
> generated by gcc, icc, glibc, uclibc, dietlibc, klibc,
> and newlib. Thus you can assume that you're dealing with
> a 32-bit app that doesn't play LDT games. Segment selectors
> are limited to the pthreads assembly code.

The LDT stuff isnt that hard to deal with, you can probably ignore the
16bit code segment funky stuff, but you'd need to parse things like size
prefixes.